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Babbage boffin Ada Lovelace honored for computer science contributions
Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she'd lived past 36
Science08 Oct 2024 | 11
What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros
Part 3 And you may ask yourself, 'How do I work this?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that large computer?'
Personal Tech04 Sep 2024 | 109
Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails
Part 2: The 16-bit era As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive
Personal Tech29 Aug 2024 | 121
Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits
Part 1: The eight-bit era A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 215
A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction
A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds
Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 37
Ex-Microsoft engineer resurrects PDP-11 from junkyard parts
Because everyone has a box of mystery computer bits they simply can't part with
Offbeat23 Aug 2024 | 68
BROADER TOPICS
80 years ago, IBM gave Harvard University one of the world's earliest computers
Feature In celebration of US Navy funded electromagnetic wonder that is the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator
On-Prem08 Aug 2024 | 20
FreeDOS and FreeBSD prove old code never dies, just gets nifty updates
Anniversary time and both are going strong into their 30s
OSes02 Jul 2024 | 57
Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection
Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale
Bootnotes26 Jun 2024 | 44
The Canon Cat – remembering the computer that tried to banish mice
Feature Refurbishing the next machine to come from the original inventor of the Mac
Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 53
BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks
Small Visual Basic, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated
Personal Tech03 May 2024 | 63
The chip that changed my world – and yours
Opinion Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding tech
Systems29 Apr 2024 | 94
Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub
Nobody's favorite operating system is now available for inspection
Offbeat26 Apr 2024 | 106
The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!
Feature Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential
Personal Tech26 Apr 2024 | 41
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 84
VMS Software prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program
Vintage OS editions go the way of the dodo as VSI cranks up exclusivity
Applications09 Apr 2024 | 55
A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS
Easter egg in test build could have scrambled Microsoft's reputation
OSes08 Apr 2024 | 48
How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT
It reached the desktop and then ...
Offbeat28 Mar 2024 | 137
PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi
FOSDEM 2024 Who needs the present when you can relive the '80s at warp speed?
Personal Tech12 Feb 2024 | 34
Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom
Frame rate would be even worse than the original, though. MUCH worse
Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 28
Techie resurrects teletext on a vintage BBC Master
You can get Ceefax via a Pi, but behold it in its most exotic of habitats
Bootnotes30 Jan 2024 | 20
The real significance of Apple's Macintosh
40 years on, it's still widely misunderstood
Personal Tech29 Jan 2024 | 71
For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed
Retro Tech Week Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors
Applications19 Jan 2024 | 71
ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned
Retro Tech Week El Reg talks to the project's founder
Personal Tech19 Jan 2024 | 24
What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all
A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear
OSes19 Jan 2024 | 23
What are our top picks from the vast world of retro tech? Let's find out
Kettle Stand by to be amazed: Lotus Notes is still being developed
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 20
How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
Retro Tech Week Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch
Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 123
Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard?
Retro Tech Week Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803
Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 18
Eben Upton on Sinclair, Acorn, and the Raspberry Pi
Interview The future's bright. The future's retro
Personal Tech15 Jan 2024 | 89
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April
Updated Fans of the tech dinosaur have a few months to fill their drives with software
OSes10 Jan 2024 | 56
Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS
86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it
OSes05 Jan 2024 | 45
How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack
Opinion Bell Labs made it bulge then Gordon Moore made it deflate
Personal Tech25 Dec 2023 | 41
40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs
The legacy can still be felt today
Software04 Dec 2023 | 110
These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks
Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K – because why not?
Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 66
Atari pulls nostalgia power move and buys homebrew community forum
AtariAge is older than the current Atari incarnation – retro enough for you?
Offbeat08 Sep 2023 | 11
ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century
When your '90s nostalgia craves a modern touch
OSes04 Sep 2023 | 73
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
Networks30 Aug 2023 | 122
Start rummaging: Atari's new 2600+ console supports vintage cartridges
Play your originals for less than what last year's nonfunctional Lego replica cost
Personal Tech23 Aug 2023 | 48
Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023
The pain and joy of using an old OS on hardware newer than it is
OSes24 Jul 2023 | 124
Ultra-rare Apple sneakers from the 1990s on sale for $50,000
Meanwhile, Einstein dismantles the creation myth in $125,000 letter
Offbeat24 Jul 2023 | 53
Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone
Could've sworn that came out yesterday
Offbeat18 Jul 2023 | 70
Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1
Next on the agenda: ClippyGPT, because why not?
Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 53
The ZX81 finally gets the keyboard it deserves
Chap posts free specs for posh build with Cherry MX switches
Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 68
XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback
G.N.U. Silicon Graphics: a company is not dead while its name is still spoken
Security31 May 2023 | 12
Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext
Sure is '90s in here
Offbeat31 May 2023 | 34
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too
Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk
OSes19 May 2023 | 95
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish
Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 7
AmigaOS 3.2.2 released for those feeling nostalgic
Original mid-1980s OS is still alive and kicking
Offbeat08 Mar 2023 | 74
Apple releases Lisa source code on landmark machine's 40th birthday
Retro Tech Week 26 megabytes of history are yours for the downloading
Personal Tech21 Jan 2023 | 55
Tales from four decades in the Sinclair aftermarket: Parts, upgrades and party tricks
Retro Tech Week RWAP Software owner Rich Mellor talks ZX81 sound cards and linking USB printers to parallel ports
Personal Tech20 Jan 2023 | 15
Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs
Retro Tech Week Lewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware
OSes19 Jan 2023 | 46
Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future
Retro Tech Week What is dead may never die, and it's all thanks to Jim Hall
OSes18 Jan 2023 | 19
Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink
Retro Tech Week Steve Revill of RISC OS Open chats to us about taking the project into the future
OSes17 Jan 2023 | 40
This maglev turntable costs more than an average luxury electric car
At $74k, this gear is an odd pitch for TEAC's time to shine again
Bootnotes11 Oct 2022 | 127
HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust
Made your old computer faster but too quiet? Here's a fun fix
Offbeat30 Sep 2022 | 41
'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left
Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige
Storage20 Sep 2022 | 136
A refined Apple desktop debuts ahead of Wednesday’s big iThing launch
It’s an eight-bit affair for the Apple II, complete with Flying Toasters and many other upgrades
Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 39
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS that can run on late-1980s hardware
Need a cold shower? This is xNix like Windows users imagine it still is
OSes10 Aug 2022 | 62
Atari Video Computer System returns in Lego form
Just as square as you remember but minus ET, the worst game of all time
Offbeat08 Aug 2022 | 10
CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years
The venerable Z80 OS is a now hobbyist favorite
OSes15 Jul 2022 | 93
Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis
Paul Fellows describes how it beat the overambitious ARX to Acorn's Archimedes computer
OSes23 Jun 2022 | 39
RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well
1980s refugee, open source, and runs on modern kit
OSes21 Jun 2022 | 110
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