The venerable MOS Technology 6502 turned up in all kinds of computers and other digital equipment over the years. Typically, it was clocked fairly slow and had limited resources, but that was just how ...

The BOOK 8088 is one of the weirdest laptops to launch in 2023. It’s a budget mini-laptop with a 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard… and the guts of a 40-year old computer including a Intel 8088 ...

The Spectrum is a very familiar black slab with blue-gray rubber keys. It plugs into your TV set and lets you play a wide variety of classic 1980s videogames – or, if you prefer, drop down to a BASIC ...

[MmmmFloorPie] revived an old project to create the retro mashup of a 6845 CRT controller and a modern Arduino Uno. When it comes to chips, the Motorola 6845 is the great granddaddy of Cathode Ray ...

There is a powerful current of nostalgia around retro computing, although more than a look at the real past, it is a look at an imaginary past, at a specific aesthetic that comes to us not from ...