In prior centuries, it was common practice to tie the operation of a program to a computer’s clock speed. As computers got faster and faster, the programs tied to that slower clock speed sometimes had ...

There was a time when seeing an actual computer was a big deal. They were in air-conditioned rooms with raised floors and locked doors. Even at a university, you were likely only to get access to a ...

Sometimes it can feel like a slow laptop or a balky phone is so old that it belongs in a museum, but the Vintage Computer Festival West celebrates pieces of technology from decades past that actually ...

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A Univac mainframe, early hard disk drives, Zork, and an Altair 8800 at VCF East 2014. What do you get when you combine several hundred serious geeks, two large rooms, five decades’ worth of vintage ...

When Levi Maaia’s mother, a school teacher, brought home the Apple IIGS in the late ‘80s, to say it made a lasting impact is an understatement. He and his family used the computer far beyond its ...

Whether it’s collecting coins, stamps or computers, I love the enthusiasm of people who hoard. Putting coins, stamps and computers in the same sentence about collecting might seem a little strange.

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This photo provided by RR Auction shows a vintage Apple computer built in the 1970s and signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak. It is being sold at auction in Boston. The Apple-1 set in motion the ...

BOSTON (AP) — A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction. The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded business ...