There was a time when seeing an actual computer was a big deal. They were in air-conditioned rooms with raised floors and locked doors. Even at a university, you were likely only to get access to a ...
History-Computer on MSN
The weird mods and hacks keeping vintage tech alive
The modern era was supposed to do away with those old analog and early digital hardware components. For decades now, the ...
A Univac mainframe, early hard disk drives, Zork, and an Altair 8800 at VCF East 2014. What do you get when you combine several hundred serious geeks, two large rooms, five decades’ worth of vintage ...
credit Photos: Lane Hartwell Equal parts flea market, film festival, conference and workshop, the 10th iteration of the Vintage Computer Festival attracted the usual mix of die-hard computer ...
Journalist Benj Edwards took to Twitter on Monday offering up his collection of vintage computers for sale. Here's what he had to say: Does anybody want to buy a computer collection I have been ...
Hosted on MSN
Why vintage computers still capture our hearts
From hands-on retro exhibits to meticulous restorations, the vintage computing community is keeping tech history alive. These machines aren’t just relics — they’re stories, memories, and engineering ...
It’s no secret that Maker Faire is highly geared toward the younger crowd. This doen’t mean the Faire is completely devoid of the historic; the Bay Area Maker Faire is right in the heart of the ...
I recently spotted an eBay auction for collection of books and floppy disks for the three decades old Xerox 16/8 (not the computer itself) which were offered for the tidy sum of $249 — which left me ...
You would have to ride in a time machine back to 1976 and that garage on Crist Drive in Los Altos, Calif., to find 10 Apple 1 computers in the same space. But this weekend, 10 or more will be ...
See refrigerator-esque and semi-trailer-sized models, including an early mobile computer. The Vintage Computer Festival East is a once-a-year museum exhibit in Wall, New Jersey that shows off vacuum ...
An auction house has put an Apple-1 computer up for bids. RR Auction will field bids on the vintage device until Aug. 24, according to the listing on its website. It has become available for purchase ...
The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I wish the people inventing things would slow down and give us some time to catch up with the last thing they ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results