Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that ...

These days, game consoles are barely disguised computers that play mostly the same games you can get on your PC at home. Back ...

WordStar was the first word processor to provide mail merge and textual WYSIWYG. This was most clearly implemented as on-screen pagination during the editing session, in addition to word-wrapping ...

The MC6800, 8-bit microprocessor unit (MPU) is being made available with supporting components including a 128-by 8-bit random access memory (RAM), a 1024- by 8-bit read-only memory (ROM), a ...

The highs and lows of CAD since the 1970s March 6, 2025 By Ralph Grabowski CAD/CAM/CAE Tracing the evolution of computer-aided design since the 1970s, from microcomputers to the cloud.

The world's first desktop microcomputer, the Q1 model, is being auctioned at Heritage Auctions. Cleaners discovered this significant artifact in storage boxes at Kingston University in London ...

The Q1 desktop microcomputer, the world's first microcomputer that was uncovered in storage boxes by accident by cleaners at Kingston University in London, is going on the auction block at ...

The MPC1600 (Multi-Personal Computer) is a microcomputer, made by Columbia Data Products, Inc., in 1983. The company stated that a Multi-Personal Computer was easily transportable and “capable of ...

Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now.

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