2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (35+ words) Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately......

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (302+ words) Hackaday This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for independence? The local option might save you long…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (34+ words) The Philips PM5139 is not famous. It won no great victories on the battlefield, nor was instrumental in changing the political landscape. It was just a useful function generator that you might find on......

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (30+ words) The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today......

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (35+ words) The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if your goal is to cr......

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (37+ words) Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research's GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it's the DOS version......

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (156+ words) Hackaday Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes Ok, that didn’t work out, but would you believe 1024 bytes of source…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (404+ words) Oftentimes, when we're using a microcontroller, we're whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly what we want wi......