Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek L… ...

That was the position [Anders Nielsen] found himself in as work progresses on his “PC-XT from Scratch” project, which seeks to build a working mid-80s vintage IBM Model 5160 using as many ...

In late 1983, industry experts forecast a major clash of computer titans in the coming year. No, it wasn’t a showdown between the Macintosh and the IBM PC–it was a supposed face-off between ...

IBM wasn’t too happy about being bested by Compaq on its home turf, of course; Big Blue released its own 386-based PC the following year, which you will see ahead. AT&T UNIX PC (1985) Image by ...

One of those companies was IBM. The original x86 PC was a project that was turned around inside of a year by a small team within IBM, and a decision to use an "open" architecture (not in the ...

A hobbyist software developer and retro computing enthusiast has accomplished an impressive feat by bridging the gap between ChatGPT and the vintage IBM PC-XT computer, which released all the way back ...

IBM PC client allows futuristic AI conversations on vintage hardware. On Sunday, Singapore-based retrocomputing enthusiast Yeo Kheng Meng released a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS that can run on a 4. ...

Spec Showdown: The Original IBM 5150 vs. Today's PCs. Just for kicks, let's compare the specs of the 1981-vintage computer that inspired the birth of PC Magazine to some modern-day desktops.

Telnet Address: heatwave.ddns.net:9640 Even after all these years, 16-color ANSI artwork is still a mainstay of IBM PC-based BBSes. It uses the IBM PC extended character set, which includes ...

Does anybody want to buy a computer collection I have been gathering since 1993? This is less than half of it. I am considering a move, and I'm not sure these can go with me to the new place.

Before the Internet, most personal computer software was sold and distributed this way. First on 8-inch floppies, then on 5.25-inch disks with the Apple II and IBM PC, and finally on 3.5-inch disks.

In these vintage Radio Shack ads, we see the evolution of Tandy computers from proprietary designs to IBM PC clones. It's a little depressing to see the ads go from fun scenario-based adventures ...