2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (165+ words) Can you use a cheap FPGA board as a base for a new computer inspired by the original IBM PC? Well, yes, of course, so that's what Yuri Zaporozhets has set out to do just that. Based on the GateMateA1-EVB,…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (320+ words) Jamie Zawinski, one of the founders of Netscape and later Mozilla, has dug up the original versions of the iconic Mozilla dinosaur logos, and posted them online in all their glory. While he strongly believes Mozilla owned these logos outright,…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1083+ words) Mark Weiser has written a really interesting article about just how desirable new computing environments, like VR, "AI" agents, and so on, really are. On the topic of "AI" agents, he writes: Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (793+ words) Some of you may be aware of rePalm, a project by Dmitry Grinberg to port the PalmOS to various devices it was never supposed to run on. We covered rePalm back in 2019 and again in 2023. His latest project involved porting…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (446+ words) OK I promised computers, so let's move to the Tek 4051 I got! Released in 1975, this was based on the 4010 series of terminals, but with a Motorola 6800 computer inside. This machine ran, like so many at the time, BASIC, but with…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (764+ words) Google has made it very clear that it's intending to bring Android to laptops and desktops, and replace Chrome OS with Android in the process. We now have a codename, and some more information about what this will look like…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (759+ words) For the past 18 months, the Linux OEM Tuxedo Computers has been working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite ARM laptop to market, but now they cancelled the project due to complications. Development turned out to be challenging due to the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (144+ words) The CHESSmate was demonstrated at the January 1978 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as a prototype in order to assess customer interest in the product. It was available for order at the June 1978 CES in Chicago and the first units,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (306+ words) Inter-corporation bullshit screwing over consumers " a tale as old as time. Major laptop vendors have quietly removed hardware decode support for the H.265/HEVC codec in several business and entry-level models, a decision apparently driven by rising licensing fees. Users working…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (714+ words) Since I was but a wee university student in the late 2000s living in a small apartment, I did not have the financial means nor the space to really test this hypothesis. Now, though, Sun's products from that era are decidedly…...