For the past few years, Chinese retro PC maker 8086YES! has been building and selling odd little computers that pack decades-old processors and other classic components into modern bodies designed for ...

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 ...

PocketMage is a dual-screen E Ink PDA with an OLED strip and QWERTY keyboard, bringing minimalist retro computing back to ...

Retro computing lets you get to grips with technology's history, showing how far modern computers have come. Here's how to build your own working Apple I replica. Computers have come a long way since ...

One of our favorite retro-computing YouTubers, [Clint] from LGR, found himself a very interesting Fujitsu keyboard while thrift store shopping. It was a beautiful unit, but confusing, as this keyboard ...

If you’ve never seen an IBM AS/400 machine, don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. Introduced in 1988 as a mid-range server line, it used a unique object-based operating system and was geared ...

What if the past wasn’t just something to remember, but something you could actively shape? That’s exactly what’s happening with the bold acquisition of Commodore Corporation, a name synonymous with ...

A momentous occasion in computing history has been achieved with the release of the Virtual OS Museum. A lone developer has collected over 1700 OS installs across ...

If you feel like every OS now feels too polished, flat, and boring, there’s a new museum that takes you down a rabbit hole of all the vintage computers. Virtual OS Museum, curated by Andrew Warkentin, ...

A few weeks back, Christian "Perifractic" Simpson, former actor and founder of the Retro Recipes YouTube channel posted a video detailing possible plans to acquire Commodore. There is lots of history ...

Big Blue puts a new twist on an older technology. But will it steal thunder from the computing giant's other big machines? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...