1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (33+ words) You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren't retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit CPU,......

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (34+ words) The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at war to build, andfill......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (36+ words) The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take notice of personal computers. Plenty o......

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (38+ words) If you were interested in computers in the early 1970s, you struggled to get time on real computers since owning your own was all but impossible. In the middle of the decade, though, you could get a f......

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (139+ words) A 1990s Homebrew OS With GUI And Web Browser, In AM29000 Machine Code Hackaday It’s written across two parts, with the first looking at the computer and the early software development, and the second at the C compiler and web browser. It’s…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (36+ words) The AM29000 series of processors were AMD's entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture in a British educational......

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (41+ words) It's likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects pedal. The raspy distorted sound has been at the......