Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857 – […]
Really eerie listening to these moments captured in time 136 years ago when recording equipment was basically ‘unheard’ of. I don’t think many of these people would ever have thought their voices would be heard […]
Previously unseen footage from the classic British TV show Thunderbirds has been found in a garden shed and restored – where possible – for viewing next year. The family of a recently deceased former editor […]
On Thursday, UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) announced the release of previously unseen images and documents related to Colossus, one of the first digital computers. The release marks the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking machines […]
I grew up in the era of having 78 RPM and 33 1/3 RPM records, but never saw one of these at all. The first pocket sized player I saw was a Sony Walkman which […]
On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope LGP-30 computer (and several 1970 DEC PDP-8/e computers) in their grandparents’ basement. The LGP-30, first released in 1956, […]
Some take the emulation route, but others demand a solution that’s closer to the original hardware. Following the latter path, [iNimbleSloth] is answering the question as to whether it’s possible to build a Sinclair ZX81 […]
According to The Byte Attic, the first commercially available microcomputer was the Q1, based on the Intel 8008 processor. The first Q1 microcomputer was delivered in December of 1972, making it the first, as far […]
I should state up front that this app really only gives a free 3-day test version, and that you do need to subscribe for monthly, yearly or once-off 2-year period to get the real advantages […]
The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and the ubiquitous micros of today. This is the […]