It’s weird to think that an abacus would have still been used sixty years ago, or so posits the documentary series The Computer and the Mind of Man. This six part series originally aired on San ...

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 ...

Back in the 1960s, you couldn’t go on the internet to look at porn or play mini-golf. Instead you had to use this thing some once called imagination. This guy had a really nice father back in the day ...

Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and spacecraft design by hand with slide rules, graph paper, and adding machines.

Back in the early '60s a computer dating service decided these two people were compatible. That calculation was right. John and Carol Matlock will... Computer Love: Their 1960s-Era Dating Strategy?

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.

Researchers have successfully revived "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, utilizing original computer code that had been forgotten for nearly 60 years. Found in dusty printouts within the MIT archives ...

An early computer program built in the 1960s has beaten the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT at the Turing test, designed to differentiate humans from artificial intelligence. Researchers from UC San Diego in ...

From the Guggenheim Museum to the Seagram Building, Manhattan had a longstanding reputation as an island of avant-garde architecture when Alison Knowles first built the House of Dust in Chelsea.