One of our favorite musical hackers, [Look Mum No Computer] is getting dangerously close to building a computer. His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a Soviet auto-dialer that ...

Ever wondered how to fix a system built in the days when winding memory by hand was the next big life skill? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

Fred Brooks, who wrote The Mythical Man Month and who worked as an architect on several important IBM computers, recently published an article about the IBM Stretch computer. Not many people know ...