A hobbyist built a working computer out of 460 vacuum tubes, and it needs 15 minutes to warm up
The Tube Computer MK3 runs an 8-bit design on 460 Soviet-era 6N3P vacuum tubes
Old school articles
CD sales are up 16%, but half the buyers don't even own a CD player
Young buyers see physical media as collectibles
Sega's Virtua Racing hits PC and Xbox for the first time, with 8-player online
Thanks to one clever developer
Connecting the dots: Since its release way back in 1992, the legendary Sega Virtua Racing has been ported to a lot of machines, but Xbox and PC never made it onto the list. That has now changed. A developer going by Wanszai recently released an unofficial emulator, built to run the game and nothing else, for Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it
Film photography is experiencing a resurrection, summoned by unlikely conjurers: Gen Z
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.
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
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.
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.
