Old mainframe computers are interesting, especially to those of us who weren’t around to see them in action. We sit with old-timers and listen to their stories of the good ol’ days. They tell us about ...

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...

Including transistor-level implementations, this comprehensive book offers a friendly presentation of the fundamental principles and practices of modern digital design, as well as complete, realistic, ...

So why was binary chosen in the first place? Why weren’t computers built from Day One to work directly, at their lowest levels, on decimal numbers? (Actually, one early computer, ENIAC, was built to ...

Polynesian islanders spoke the language of computers centuries before the first programmer was born. It seems that inhabitants of Mangareva island in French Polynesia created their own particular ...