I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

What do the HP-1000 and the DEC VAX 11/730 have in common with the video games Tempest and Battlezone? More than you might think. All of those machines, along with many others from that time period, ...

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Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

Ready for a total tech throwback? Discover 16 electronic gadgets from the early 2000s that showcase how slow personal ...

A simple surface coating could make it easier to reliably make parts of next-generation computer chips using silicon and a ...

Over on YouTube [The 8-Bit Guy] shows us how the TI-99/4A home computer worked. [The 8-Bit Guy] runs us through this odd 16-bit home computer from back in the 1980s, starting with a mention of the ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...