10+ hour, 53+ min ago   (33+ words) You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren't retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit CPU,......

1+ day, 3+ min ago   (35+ words) Although hard disks weren't a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word 'affordable', naturally. This i......

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (40+ words) When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect 'yes', with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less than 10% of said $3,000 asking pric......

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (199+ words) hackaday.com Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease Unfortunately manufacturers were scared…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (258+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny ARM board he squeezes inside…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (264+ words) Hackaday Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning Now that it’s the 21st century, we’ve gotten used to being…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (34+ words) The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at war to build, andfill......

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (42+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as "a PC inside a Mouse", but that depends on your definition of a "PC". This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there's nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny A......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (34+ words) After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when suddenly it would j......

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (37+ words) A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same basic design as it had in 1890, as does the sewin......