It isn't often that I look at a new product and say, "Now that's cool enough to write about", but the Pi Vessel is such a product. The Pi Vessel is a small computer designed for multimedia, gaming, ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Company PDP series of mini-computers ruled the world ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose, as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so ...

Kenneth Olsen, who died at 84 on Sunday, was a natural disruptor in the early days of computing. At Digital Equipment Corp., Olsen’s minicomputers undercut the costs of IBM’s mainframe computers and ...

One of the difficulties with addressing IoT applications is understanding application requirements early enough to deliver a solution when it’s most needed. Too early and the need isn’t there yet; too ...

(Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA) The first minicomputer company. Commonly known as DEC or Digital, it was founded in 1957 by Kenneth Olsen, who headed the company until he retired in 1992.

Bill Loguidice is the author of multiple books on gaming history, including Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time.

Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws. We ...

In the days before computers usually used off-the-shelf CPU chips, people who needed a CPU often used something called “bitslice.” The idea was to have a building block chip that needed some ...

The EDUC-8, a DIY minicomputer design that came out in “Electronics Australia” magazine, was almost the world’s first in August 1974. And it would have been tied for the world’s first if inventor ...

Minicomputers were common in office, commercial, and industrial spaces, bringing computer access to the masses. It also provided local control of computing hardware. Timesharing systems with multiple ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Corp. PDP series of minicomputers ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose: as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so loves the PDP ...