In the days before computers usually used off-the-shelf CPU chips, people who needed a CPU often used something called “bitslice.” The idea was to have a building block chip that needed some ...

It isn't often that I look at a new product and say, "Now that's cool enough to write about", but the Pi Vessel is such a product. The Pi Vessel is a small computer designed for multimedia, gaming, ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Company PDP series of mini-computers ruled the world ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose, as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so ...

[David Lovett] aka Usagi Electric has spent the last several months dissecting a Centurion minicomputer from 1980. His latest update reveals that the restoration has hit several snags, and ...

Given the interest in smaller computers, coupled with the introduction of microprocessors, the creation of a successful personal computer was probably inevitable. But it likely would have happened ...

Kenneth Olsen, who died at 84 on Sunday, was a natural disruptor in the early days of computing. At Digital Equipment Corp., Olsen’s minicomputers undercut the costs of IBM’s mainframe computers and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-1960s, the Computer ...

Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London. Languages; ...

It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop. By Glenn Rifkin C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer ...

After all, that was the issue with a cover story that–editorial director Arthur Salzburg declared in his editorial–ushered in the home computer age. He was being portentous. But history also happens ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Corp. PDP series of minicomputers ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose: as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so loves the PDP ...