The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 ...

There are a ton of inventions out in the world that are almost complete accidents, but are still ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives. Things like bubble wrap which was originally intended to be ...

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed at the University of Cambridge, is one of the world’s earliest general-purpose computers. Volunteers at the National Museum of ...

While many companies are now offering access to general-purpose quantum computers, they’re not currently being used to solve any real-world problems, as they’re held back by issues with qubit count ...