My Macintosh Classic with matching ADB keyboard and mouse. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac What makes people start collecting vintage Macs? There are many reasons. Some folks want to play ...

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 ...

When Levi Maaia’s mother, a school teacher, brought home the Apple IIGS in the late ‘80s, to say it made a lasting impact is an understatement. He and his family used the computer far beyond its ...

Old computers tend to lead sedentary lives. Parked in shelves and closets, maybe touched by the occasional dusting; the lucky ones still run old games from time to time. But sometimes one becomes a ...

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 ...

In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...

The Lansing Area Vintage Computer Club held its first public meet, bringing together computer enthusiasts to interact with ...

The Vintage Computer Festival East took place last weekend at the InfoAge Science and History Museum in New Jersey, and by any metric you care to use, it was a phenomenal success. Everyone you spoke ...

The Apple Macintosh 128K wasn't the first computer developed and launched by Apple, but when it launched in January 24th, 1984, it was considered the best computer on the market. After the launch, ...

One of the world's biggest collections of Apple products from 1977 to 2008 is being auctioned off. At the end of March, over 500 retro Apple products are going on sale online and in California. See ...

It's always fun to take a walk down memory lane, especially the gold age in the advent of Personal Computing technologies. Some of the best ways to revisit this era are through print magazine ads that ...

Really cool read. The z80 was everywhere in the 80s. Colecovision, game gear, TI calculators (all things I had). Game boy was not quite a z80 but something kind of similar. The article mentioned the ...