These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud

The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and ...
Government Technology

UW-Milwaukee's 'Retrolab' Conveys World Before Cellphones, Social Media

A history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stocked a lab with old computing equipment and devices so ...
Hackaday

LLM-Generated Newspaper Provides Ultimate In Niche Publications

If you’re reading this, you probably have some fondness for human-crafted language. After all, you’ve taken the time to ...
Hackaday

A Much Faster Mac On A Microcontroller

Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and some 16-bit machines available on Atmel, ARM, or ESP32 platforms. But there’s ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones. Storage room 3495 at his ...