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Ever wonder what vintage computers were like? This virtual museum lets you try hundreds

The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything from 1948’s Manchester Baby to classic Mac OS, early Wi...

The Teleguide, an Obscure and Forgotten Machine Transformed into a Retro Gaming Computer #piday #raspberrypi

  Simon Pettersson on Reddit got his hands on a new-in-box piece of failed computer history. He then set out on a mission to make a retro gaming setup. Via Reddit: This is a Telegu...

MC6850 ACIA Tester using the Raspberry Pi Pico #raspberrypi

Save your vintage project some headaches with this MC6850 ACIA Tester. Shared by DQuadros on Hackster.io: The MC6850 is a popular serial interface for retro computers. We use a Ras...

The Virtual OS Museum Lets You Emulate 1700+ Operating Systems From as Far Back as 1948

The history of computing at your fingertips.

The $666 Board That Built Apple: How the Apple I Changed Computing 50 Years Ago

Americans of a certain age may well remember growing up with an Apple II in the classroom, and the perpetual temptation it held out to play The Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, or pe...

60fps video on a CGA display? Yes, using the GlyphBlaster

GloriousCow on Blogger writes about 1980s IBM PC CGA graphics: There’s a certain genre of retro-hardware hack that everyone recognizes is technically cheating, but has a certain au...

Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts

IBM's Selectric Composer was a special edition of the famed business-class typewriter that used proportional type instead of fixed-width characters, allowing the typist to create b...

A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser

Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM that boots 570-o...

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them

Retro gaming PCs are booming in 2026, and not just for nostalgia — Here's the story behind it and how to build your own...

With modern hardware costs exploding and modern games leaving a lot to be desired, many PC gamers are returning to retro games. The barrier to entry is quite low, and I'm here to h...

World’s oldest computer revealed: A YouTuber’s data leads scientists to new insights into 2,000 years of computing histo...

Taking A Punt On An Untested Amiga 1200 From eBay

I took a punt on an untested Amiga 1200 from eBay, cleaned it up, upgraded it with RAM and a hard drive, and turned a gamble into a fully restored retro machine.

The Commodore 64C Returns: How FPGA Tech is Perfectly Recreating the 1980S Classic

The Commodore 64C Ultimate, scheduled for release later this year, revisits the iconic Commodore 64C with a focus on preserving its original experience while incorporating modern t...

Hier vliegen de oude Pentiums en IBM-computers je (letterlijk) om de oren

Wat te doen met je oude computer? Bij studievereniging Inter-Actief op de UT weten ze er wel raad mee. Daar smijten ze de (bijna) antieke bakbeesten vanuit een hoogwerker naar bene...

Amiga 500 Vs 600 Upgrades In 2026

Are Amiga 500s really harder to upgrade than the Amiga 600? A real-world look at ACA500plus, PiStorm, CF storage, RAM upgrades and modern Amiga setups in 2026.

How a £50 DIY Computer Kit with 1KB of RAM Changed Tech Forever

The Sinclair ZX81, launched in 1981, stands as a landmark in the history of home computing, offering an affordable gateway into personal technology. Created by Sinclair Research, t...

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Toronto. The digital era is now decades old, making the collection of digital cameras attractive. In the future, film cameras will be a rarity. Those who collect digital cameras to...

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum

Feeling nostalgic? From Amiga Unix to XVM/RSX, anyone can run over 570 extinct OSes. Try it now on Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes Antiques code show  Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This tim...

I miss when tech looked cheap, plastic, and honest

Old plastic gadgets were chunky, strange, and sometimes ugly, but they had a tactile clarity modern tech keeps sanding away.

Four Neat Things

A Friday HodgepodgeI may not post here next Monday or Tuesday owing to major personal obligations.***1. I once future-proofed an "obsolete" peripheral by running it with a virtual...

Two computer giants of the 80s - the Spectrum and C64 - are being turned into pocket-sized handhelds by the makers of Ev...

If, like me, your childhood was one of Masters of the Universe and Rainbow Brite rather than a strange computer-generated man poking his head out a toilet, prepare to ready the nos...

Когда компьютер не покупали — его добывали

От кассетной загрузки и 48 КБ памяти до Pentium MMX, Windows 95 и первых синих экранов…

A hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350)

Japi Base — Jan’s Pico Projects Base is a well-documented, hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350). Japi Base provides all the basic I/O of a small computer...