Recently, a Reddit user discovered a rare RCA Spectra 70/35 computer control panel from 1966 in their family’s old collapsed garage, posting photos of the pre-moon landing mainframe component to the ...

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone operators prevented exhibitors from linking their terminals to off-site computers, ...

Restoring vintage computers is the favorite task of many hardware hackers. Retrocomputing probably makes you think of home computer brands like Commodore, Amiga, or Apple but [Erik Baigar] is deeply ...

It long ago stopped being profitable (or even feasible) to mine Bitcoin on consumer-level hardware. So why not try it out on a computer primarily used by forward-thinking universities—an IBM mainframe ...

Flossie, which has Serial number 6, was the first customer delivery of this revolutionary model. It was bought by University of London for £250,000 (the equivalent of around £4.2m ($6.7 today). At the ...

Wall panel from the 1971 Manfred Mohr solo exhibition "Computer Graphics - Une Esthétique Programmée," various inks on paper, 30.51 x 110.83 (photo by the author) The most commanding visual in Manfred ...

This drawing was made in 1968 by a computer called CalComp, and was shown at an exhibition devoted to computer “plotter art.” Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Science Service Historical Image ...

Looking at the photo of the back of the panel, there doesn't look to be any sort of logic there (not surprising) so all the comments about hooking it up to some sort of emulator are somewhat moot.