Prices for vintage PCs in need of repairs and hard-to-find parts have shot up on resale sites. By Kim Key For all the personal technology introduced and popularized in 2020 — upscale fitness bikes, at ...
For the past few years, Chinese retro PC maker 8086YES! has been building and selling odd little computers that pack decades-old processors and other classic components into modern bodies designed for ...
If you’re still using a computer you bought during the Clinton administration, interesting news: Crystal Dew World, developers of apps like CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, have released an update ...
There’s something quite satisfying about building your own computer. Nowadays, constructing your own desktop PC is relatively easy, so if you really want to get your hands dirty, you have to take a ...
What if the past wasn’t just something to remember, but something you could actively shape? That’s exactly what’s happening with the bold acquisition of Commodore Corporation, a name synonymous with ...
It's always fun to take a walk down memory lane, especially the gold age in the advent of Personal Computing technologies. Some of the best ways to revisit this era are through print magazine ads that ...
June 19th-21st 2026 promises to be a great time for fans of retro-computing and their accompanying audio gadgets. Vintage Computer Festival GB is set to return in an explosion of pixels and beeps. 5 ...
Old computers — everyone has one (or at least parts of one) collecting dust in the attic somewhere. Depending on when you bought it, it might have been obsolete within a year, or, if you were a very ...
There’s something magical about combining vintage design with modern tech—and the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard (C64 Edition) does exactly that. It’s a beautiful tribute to the Commodore 64, with ...
For decades, high-performance computing customers have used machines with “vector” processors, which excel at certain mathematical operations and can quickly retrieve large amounts of data from memory ...
If you’ve never seen an IBM AS/400 machine, don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. Introduced in 1988 as a mid-range server line, it used a unique object-based operating system and was geared ...
So, I've been thinking about retro computing and the Raspberry Pi, and I wanted feedback on whether an idea I've had is feasible. Unless I'm very mistaken, even a Pi Zero has enough CPU performance to ...