Developer Mads Chr. Olesen has repurposed floppy disks into a tangible selection system that allows his toddler to choose TV ...

The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari ...

There are regular jelly beans, and then there is Jelly Belly, which comes in a wide variety of unique flavors like buttered popcorn, watermelon, and juicy pear. David Klein’s vision for these gourmet ...

Coming in the wake of the success of the Apple II, Apple's first proper triumph in the hardware space, the Apple III was the ...

Black Friday season is upon us, and that means it’s a great time to find a bargain or two on one of the best Macs around. Whether you’ve just pulled the trigger or simply have your eye on a new ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

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In context: If there's one thing YouTube has shown, it's that almost anything can be built by yourself at home if you have the time, skill, and required parts. Take, for example, polymatt, who managed ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing else on ...

Look up circularization of orbits, and elliptical orbits. Without a circularization burn, an elliptical launch orbit is going to return to intersect the atmosphere ...