Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

Retro gaming is having a huge revival right now, with hardware emulating classic consoles so you can use original cartridges, ...

The unique look of early desktop computer systems remains popular with a certain segment of geekdom, so it’s no great surprise when we occasionally see a modern hacker or maker unceremoniously chuck ...

In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...

The OneChipBook-12-A is a modern mini laptop design for retro computing. It’s the latest in a line of systems from 8086YES! that are designed to let you run classic code from decades past on hardware ...

Nearly two decades ago, Dmitriy Cherepanov started a collection of retro computers in Mariupol, Ukraine, that grew into an internationally known assemblage of historic machines, housed in a private ...

Old games consoles never die – they just get emulated. These days, even very affordable modern tech is powerful enough to let you cart around decades of gaming history in your trousers. Dedicated ...

New custom tape reader relies on a minimal optical setup using modern parts LED tuning and sensor calibration demanded serious patience during early testing phases Crosstalk reduction became a key ...

Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations Processing System (Tops), when it ...