In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.

Few schools had their own computers in the early 1970s - but by the end of the decade many began to invest in models such as the Elliott 903 The chances of walking into a UK school without any ...

These days, data is as likely as not to be “in the cloud.” Otherwise, it’s probably on a USB flash drive or SD card. But in the old days, paper tape was a widespread way to store and retrieve data. A ...

We often think that not enough people are building things with FPGAs. We also love the retrotechtacular posts on old computer hardware. So it was hard to pass up [karlwoodward’s] post about the Chip ...

Few schools had their own computers in the early 1970s - but by the end of the decade many began to invest in models such as the Elliott 903 The chances of walking into a UK school without any ...