4 stories tagged with #retrocomputing, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Looking at a TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive from 1983
Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable…
Making a Neo Nuvistor Project in 2026
For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build…
Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux
A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland…
Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story
You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to produce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh com…