The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I wish the people inventing things would slow down and give us some time to catch up with the last thing they ...
Apple IIs. Commodores. The Amstrad CPC 464. If you're a fan of retro hardware, a visual artist from Canada has something you're going to want to check out. Reading time 2 minutes There’s pretty much ...
Whether it’s collecting coins, stamps or computers, I love the enthusiasm of people who hoard. Putting coins, stamps and computers in the same sentence about collecting might seem a little strange.
WASHINGTON – The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They're still using floppy disks ...
One of the challenges of keeping a vintage computer up and running is the limited availability of spare parts. While not everything has hit dire levels of availability (not yet, anyway), it goes ...
I recently spotted an eBay auction for collection of books and floppy disks for the three decades old Xerox 16/8 (not the computer itself) which were offered for the tidy sum of $249 — which left me ...
Every durable good built by man find itself in an awkward period where its immediate value has been used up, but its historical value is not yet realized. Every future antique is destined to be ...
I stumbled across this really interesting web site page. This page alone has picture links to analog computers, vintage microphones, antique TVs, planetary models and projectors, tube testers, old ...
Just because something is “never used” doesn’t mean it’s good. [Inkoo Vintage Computing] learned that lesson while trying to repair an Amiga 500 and finding parts online that were claimed to be “new” ...