Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Reed’s book—which has over 620 pages of analysis, code samples, photographs, maps, flowcharts, footnotes, asides, cross-references, and other details—thoroughly backs up this claim. Text games, in both their earliest parser form and in more modern […]
Remember using dialup in the 1990s? Back when the technology was new, the online world wasn’t overrun with corporations, and everyone was basically trying to figure out what the internet even was? If you miss […]
HP calculators just never die! I still have a HP-12C, and a HP-41CV, which both work perfectly well. Yes, you’d think that calculators dead with cellphones around, but if you are regularly calculating numbers it […]
“Tough Developer” did this blog recently about looking back at Turbo C and Turbo C++, and also installed an old version to play around with it. It is a reminder of how far we have […]
With the tactile buckling of the internal spring and the click of the flipper against the capacitive PCB, the keys in IBM’s Model F keyboards inspired today’s mechanical switches. IBM’s Model F keyboards are prized […]
The Archive’s “Calculator Drawer” – as it has named the collection – includes classic machines from Texas Instruments’ graphing calculator series. You’ll find the TI 73 Explorer, 81, 82, 83 Plus, 85, 86, and – […]
It is not confirmed why Retro Pod was removed from the App Store — neither the developer of the app nor Apple returned The Verge’s request for comment. But it is not hard to imagine […]
Wow, I remember this site from way back. I think I was receiving e-mail updates from it where Cecil would answer various questions. Back then we did not have Google Search at all, so this […]
This was my first application written for work, back around 1987 or 1988, on a HP41CV programmable calculator. The problem it was solving, was for shift workers to be able to know what shift they’d […]
The PalmPilot doesn’t seem to get much retrocomputing love, but maybe it should. After all, it might not have been the very first handheld, but it was probably the most successful, and that ultimately led […]