Old-school crime: man gets suspended jail sentence for burning and selling pirated CDs
Streaming may have replaced discs, but selling pirated CDs can still carry serious consequences
Old school articles
Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape
Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M magnetic tape dates back to 1973 and contains roughly 40 megabytes of data – the earliest surviving Unix release in which both the kernel and core utilities were written in C.
In the age of AI and chatbots, Casio is still selling millions of calculators
A calculator never hallucinates its answers, though scientific ones can make you suffer anyway
Windows just turned 40: What was the original project name of Windows 1.0?
The graphical user interface for MS-DOS circa 1985
A Musical Journey Through PC Gaming's Most Unforgettable Soundtracks
Some soundtracks stay with you long after the game ends. PC gaming is full of those moments: melodies tied to places, stories, and memories we never left behind.
Which of these features were part of the 1982 Epson HX-20 notebook PC?
The world's first handheld computer had a feature you'd never expect – can you guess it?
How many meters of tape are found in a 60-minute audio cassette tape?
Tech trivia for old schoolers
The first mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC debuted in 1983. What was its price?
The DynaTAC weighed nearly two pounds and measured 10 inches tall... not including its antenna.
FAA finally replacing floppy disks and Windows 95 in air traffic control systems
Better late than never
SilverStone is making another 80s-style case, this time a mid-tower
Retro on the outside, modern on the inside
Decades-old Windows systems are still running trains, printers, and hospitals
You've probably used Windows XP without even knowing it
Intel's origin story: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left which company to found Intel?
Initially, the new venture was named "Moore Noyce Electronics."
Developer ports compact Llama 2 LLM to DOS in weekend hackathon
Unfortunately, the feat can only be accomplished on computers with 32-bit CPUs
Sega arcade classic OutRun is becoming a movie, directed by Michael Bay
Game to film adaptations are hot right now
The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs
Enthusiasts have pushed silicon to its limits for decades. The thrill of extra performance lives on, and here are some of the most iconic CPUs ever, revered for their overclocking prowess.
How to fax from your phone: Secure, reliable, and effortless
Faxing in the digital age
The ghosts in the original Pac-Man had unique AI traits, which was the least predictable?
Also, don't miss our feature 50 Years of Video Games.
How much did it cost to rent a movie at the first rental store in the US in 1977?
Decades before the Netflix era.
In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
A long, long time ago, desktop PCs used to have a Turbo button alongside Power and Reset.
Sony Walkman: The First Personal Entertainer
The Sony Walkman was not only a revolutionary device, it was revolutionary on a cultural scale. With the Walkman you could play any song, anywhere, anytime, before the same was possible for movies, e-books or video games.
IRS' aging tech infrastructure is costing money and putting taxpayers at risk
Audit reveals some alarming developments at the agency
Old-school mainframes could see renewed life with AI integration
Mainframes performing AI queries in the cloud is too slow, so AI is coming to mainframes
Cyrix 5x86 and Cyrix 6x86: Gone But Not Forgotten
#TBT Precursor chipmaker Cyrix made personal computing accessible to millions with its affordable budget PCs, only to be killed by its best product and its inability to run a popular game.
Who manufactured the original Nintendo NES 8-bit processor?
Was it Panasonic, Texas Instruments, Ricoh or Xerox?