A new book made possible by CHM research reveals the untold story of Utah’s Sphere Corporation, makers of one of the original desktop all-in-one PCs. IT WAS DECEMBER 1975, and the future was being…

We were looking into the marvelous recent project by [Throaty Mumbo] to recreate and reimagine the forgotten world of VHS-tape-based video games. Wait, what? Yes, back in the day, when computer gra…

Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled "...

Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.

October 10, 1980 Namco officially transfers rights to Midway for distribution of the games Pac-Mac and Rally-X in North America. While the exact date that Pac-Man started shipping to arcades in North…

October 9, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson demonstrate the first two-way phone call over outdoor wires. Bell and Watson made their call between the cities of Boston and Cambridge.

October 8, 1992

Apple II-6502 Assembly Language Tutor; 3rd-Pr (Haskell, Richard E.) (1983) (ISBN 0-13-039230-8)scanned 2021-01-09pages: 244resolution: 4083x5543 @...

Les piles HyperCard d'origine, leurs scripts tels quels, sur le Mac d'aujourd'hui. Et un flipper à construire soi-même, un pendu, un Tetris.

Sometimes, stories we return to decades later unexpectedly receive a continuation in the present day.

I recovered my original German BBS workspaces directly from my old 5.25" Commodore 64 floppy disks. Most of this historic content originates from the German TMC BBS, which ran on a Commodore 64.…

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Toys 'R' US - Midway (VHS Dump)

191 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.

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October 6, 1942 Chester Carlson is issued a patent on a process called electrophotography, now commonly known as photocopying. It was not until 1946 that a company had any interest in pursuing…

This item is a catalog page spread from TENEX Computer Express, dated 1994, advertising Commodore and Amiga hardware, software, upgrades, peripherals, and...

This document is a product catalog published by Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. in 1983. It presents a range of graphics terminals, OEM computer systems, video...

Accessing La Cueva BBS (Bulletin Board System) in Mexico in 1993, replaying the 64 kilobytes of data captured from a modem.

There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age. The font on the Commodore 64 keyboard for example, with its its slightly n…

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