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 ...

Perhaps the ultimate holiday gift for any technology geek is a vintage artifact plucked from the pages of computer history. In the following slides, we’ll look at an array of classic computer ...

We don’t have to tell the average Hackaday reader that the last two years have represented a serious dry spell for the type of in-person events that our community has always taken for granted. Sure ...

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 ...

I recently spotted an eBay auction for collection of books and floppy disks for the three decades old Xerox 16/8 (not the computer itself) which were offered for the tidy sum of $249 — which left me ...

KENNETT SQDUARE-If necessity is the mother of invention, obsolescence might be the mother of ingenuity. Bill Degnan, owner of the newly opened Kennett Classic vintage computing gallery and gift shop ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Take a trip to nostalgia overload with these huge ...

In the 80s, Radio Shack sold a line of Tandy personal computers in its stores. Tandy machines were sometimes mocked -- 1980's TRS-80 model was derided as the "Trash-80" by critics -- but they were ...

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.

Spring has sprung at the Jersey Shore, and for retrocomputer aficionados that can only mean one thing — the Vintage Computer Festival East is imminent. The East Coast’s premier event for classic ...