On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute… Read More »
On Wednesday, acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems, which still rely on floppy disks and Windows 95 computers, Tom’s Hardware reports. The agency has issued a Request For Information to gather proposals from companies willing to tackle the massive infrastructure… Read More »
Although 4 billion addresses seemed near infinite in 1974, by the early 1990s it was already evident that the Internet would soon run out of IP (IPv4) addresses, necessary for computers to be connected to the Internet. Work on the next generation of IP, IPv6, was to increase the number of routable network addresses from… Read More »
Enlarge / I mostly recognize this early laptop from its resemblance to a similar-looking computer in the film 2010. It’s up for auction along with hundreds of other old Apple computers. Julien’s Auctions reader comments 27 with Share this story If you’ve been thinking your home or workspace is perhaps deficient when it comes to… Read More »
Enlarge / A view of Brian Green’s home computer lab, full of vintage treasures. reader comments 45 with Share this story In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap… Read More »
Enlarge / Benj Edwards’ computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. reader comments 117 with 0 posters participating Share this story Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad’s Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The… Read More »
Enlarge / The LGP-30 computer, from 1956, that a Redditor found in a basement. Share this story 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, is one of… Read More »