It’s one of the great mysteries of computing, how somehow in the Year Of OLlama 2026, tape remains the god of cheap storage.

DARPA money. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, regularly throws round sweet, sweet tax dollars to push ...

Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, ...

Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, but the ...

Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips.

Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived.

Atomic clocks are super accurate. But, unsurprisingly, some atomic clocks are better than others, depending on your ...

You’ve probably heard of Mars Pathfinder, the NASA lander and its Sojourner rover that took up residence on Mars in 1997. At ...

Despite the recent leaps forward in other forms of computer-driven design, the reliability of PCB autorouters remains ...

Valve recently began shipping its long-awaited VR headset, the Steam Frame. Now, there is a hardware reference repository ...

The Abric Romaní site in Spain is rather unique in archeology for one simple reason: the caves in its limestone-rich cliff ...

Finding inexpensive broken hardware for sale, buying it, and restoring it to working condition is a long-standing tradition ...