A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote, and somehow it works better than smart screens ...
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 ...
From the $10,000 Lisa to the cracking G4 Cube, here are the biggest flops in Apple's history ...
Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977 which started the personal computer ...
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 ...
Pointless? Maybe, but count me in. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm sure this will be one for all of those who actually used ...
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 ...
Look up circularization of orbits, and elliptical orbits. Without a circularization burn, an elliptical launch orbit is going to return to intersect the atmosphere ...
February 13, 1984: The first Mac’s launch generates enormous excitement from the tech press, as epitomized by an InfoWorld cover story about the Macintosh 128K. The wave of coverage comes a few weeks ...