Innovation keeps racing forward, yet a growing number of people are deliberately stepping back—especially as a constant onslaught of unwanted AI from every angle is being used as a corporate excuse to ...

What if you could hold a piece of computing history in your hands—only this time, it’s smarter, sturdier, and ready for the modern age? The ZX81, a innovative device that introduced countless people ...

If you’re of a certain vintage, you have probably looked at some of the microcomputers on the market these days and thought “that would have been a decent workstation back in the ...

What factors are driving the retro computing revival? While hardware is more powerful than it has ever been, there is a small contingent of computer users leaning on devices from the 1980s to 2000s.

The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything ...

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 ...

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The OneChipBook-12-A is a modern mini laptop design for retro computing. It’s the latest in a line of systems from 8086YES! that are designed to let you run classic code from decades past on hardware ...

Nearly two decades ago, Dmitriy Cherepanov started a collection of retro computers in Mariupol, Ukraine, that grew into an internationally known assemblage of historic machines, housed in a private ...

Sometimes it can feel like a slow laptop or a balky phone is so old that it belongs in a museum, but the Vintage Computer Festival West celebrates pieces of technology from decades past that actually ...

Cyberdecking, once a hobby for hardware enthusiasts, is gaining traction among Gen Z creators. The trend combines DIY ...

If you’re still using a computer you bought during the Clinton administration, interesting news: Crystal Dew World, developers of apps like CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, have released an update ...