Far from a plug-and-play process, it's nearly impossible to achieve 4K UHD Blu-ray playback on PC without jumping through ...

Skip drive bottlenecks entirely: see how a "Frugal Install" forces a bloated web browser to run directly through pure, volatile memory.

Greaseweazle is a hardware and software solution that lets you archive or regenerate old floppy disks. Reading them is useful for recovering old data or forgotten programs that you can use in your ...

The ongoing fuss surrounding the bug in Apple’s asr tool that is breaking bootable backups made with Carbon Copy Cloner, ChronoSync, and SuperDuper caused me to revisit my backup recommendations (see ...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control System ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

This project includes inverse assemblers for the Intel 8031 and 8051 microcontrollers and high-speed variants to be used with older Hewlett-Packard and Agilent logic analyzers. The inverse assembler ...

MCA tried for easier hardware upgrades with a Jurassic form of plug-and-play that involved a unique setup floppy disk for each computer and card—a nightmare for enterprises with thousands of PS/2s, ...

All images are original photos or scans taken by me. 1970s-80s computing memorabilia In the rush to be always modern and up to date, the first thing we discard is old computer books, manuals, and ...