There was a time when seeing an actual computer was a big deal. They were in air-conditioned rooms with raised floors and locked doors. Even at a university, you were likely only to get access to a ...

The Manx Catalog archives computer manuals, and there are a great many to be found there: "22165 manuals, 10104 of which are online, at 61 websites." It's an archive of archives! Manx covers the ...

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 ...

This weekend is the Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) West, which will be held in-person at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Here is the complete schedule of events. If you’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

See refrigerator-esque and semi-trailer-sized models, including an early mobile computer. The Vintage Computer Festival East is a once-a-year museum exhibit in Wall, New Jersey that shows off vacuum ...

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 ...

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.

BOSTON (AP) — A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction. The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded business ...