He was 12. It was the best birthday gift his parents ever gave him. Not a bike, not a pair of skis, not a model rocket — it was a programmable calculator. "I was a total geek," admits Carlos Brody in ...
Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This programmable handheld electronic ...
.NET has finally been out long enough that I'm starting to see little utilities and shareware applications that depend on the .NET Framework. Here's an example that will bring a nostalgic smile to ...
I think you'll agree – EDN needs more teardowns! In that spirit, I've taken a screwdriver to my rare and wonderful Wang LOCI-2 calculator. This machine's design seems to be from 1965, though I ...
When the band support on [David]’s Casio CFX-400 Scientific Calculator Watch finally broke after 10 years of use, he found it almost impossible to find another watch with the same functionality. Like ...