If you were selling computers in the early 1960s you faced a few problems, chief among them was convincing people to buy the fantastically expensive machines. But you also needed to develop an ...

[David Given] frequently dives into retrocomputing, and we don’t just mean he refurbishes old computers. We mean things like creating a simulator and assembler for the OBP spaceflight computer ...

Software used by banks and the space industry may still rely on archaic code. We went in search of the oldest code in use and asked, what happens when it glitches?

Between the 1960s and 1980s, the semiconductor industry primarily used a vertically integrated model covering all aspects, ...

The first computer mouse was invented in the early 1960s by Douglas Engelbart during his time at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. Engelbart, often described as a ...

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well. Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software ...

British start-up, Apollo Instruments, has meticulously recreated the computer from NASA's 1960s Apollo spacecraft in miniature with its DSKY Moonwatch. The multifunctional timepiece pays homage to ...