Computers began appearing in the home in the mid to late 1970s. Most of these first personal computers were kits assembled by hobbyists and engineers wanting a computer to do programming work at home ...

In 1983, I was a an academically struggling high school freshman. My Dad, a professor, brought home a Kaypro computer. It weighed 24 pounds, had a 9 inch internal green screen monitor, and two disc ...

When you run into old hardware you cannot restore, what do you do? Toss it? Sell it for parts? If you’re [TME Retro], you hide a high-end mini PC inside an Amstrad-shaped sleeper build. The donor ...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers the first word processor he had — the Kaypro II in the 1980s. Its inventor, Andrew Kay, died Aug. 28, at the age of 95. The Kaypro II weighed in at a mere 26 ...

This past weekend, we spent some time among the computer enthusiasts at the Vintage Computer Fest East, hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists. The event was a mix of things: part ...