ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – There were dozens of old computers at the Quelab Maker Space, both Apple and PC’s and these machines really paint the picture of how much technology has advanced. But, these ...

Though packed away in garages and basements or collecting dust on a bookshelf, the computers of decades past are often things ...

Old computers — everyone has one (or at least parts of one) collecting dust in the attic somewhere. Depending on when you bought it, it might have been obsolete within a year, or, if you were a very ...

Old computers tend to lead sedentary lives. Parked in shelves and closets, maybe touched by the occasional dusting; the lucky ones still run old games from time to time. But sometimes one becomes a ...

Once part of Canadian tech history, the NABU personal computers disappeared into oblivion in 1986 because of the company's financial difficulties. However, thousands of NABU machines recently surfaced ...

The Vintage Computer Festival East took place last weekend at the InfoAge Science and History Museum in New Jersey, and by any metric you care to use, it was a phenomenal success. Everyone you spoke ...

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 ...

In May, Sean Malseed hauled the latest addition to his computer collection into his Philadelphia home. The bespectacled software developer and YouTuber had acquired a sought-after specimen: the ...

A creator panel at a Vintage Computer Federation event. Sean Malseed is third from the right. When it comes to computers, Sean Malseed believes there’s no such thing as junk. Malseed’s day job is as a ...

My Macintosh Classic with matching ADB keyboard and mouse. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac What makes people start collecting vintage Macs? There are many reasons. Some folks want to play ...