If you’re on the US East Coast, you should head on over to Wall, NJ and check out the Vintage Computer Festival East. After all, [Brian Kernighan] is going to be there. Yes, that [Brian Kernighan].

Today’s memory sticks have hundreds of pins and many gigabytes of RAM on board. Decades ago, though, the humble 30-pin SIMM was the state of the art where memory was concerned. If you’ve got vintage ...

Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

Though packed away in garages and basements or collecting dust on a bookshelf, the computers of decades past are often things ...

Everything that was in the 1984 Macintosh 128K's original retail box. Swoon. Back in 1984, Apple released the first Macintosh home computer, a magnificent piece of vintage computer design that would ...

"Beauty" isn't always the word that comes to mind when talking about computers. But through his photographs, Mark Richards ably shows the grace of vintage models. "Core Memory," an exhibit of Richards ...

When Levi Maaia’s mother, a school teacher, brought home the Apple IIGS in the late ‘80s, to say it made a lasting impact is ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Nov 11, 2024 at 8:00 am November 11, 2024 at 8:09 ...

On Tuesday, classic computer collector Joe Strosnider announced the availability of a new 3D-printer filament that replicates the iconic “Platinum” color scheme used in classic Macintosh computers ...

The annual Vintage Computer Festival kicks off Friday on the Peninsula. The event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View shows visitors the technology that launched Silicon Valley. The ...

At VCF Southwest you can expect to see, experience, and get hands on with a wide range of vintage technology from the early days of computing into the 2000s We have something for everyone including: ...

A popular Woody tower computer case. A popular Woody tower space heater. Although most: roll-yer-own, Hot Rod-type, state-of-the-art, computer builds have the BTU output of space heaters aside-- don't ...