The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...
The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...
Should you travel around Europe, you may notice that things in France are ever so slightly different. Not necessarily better or worse, simply that the French prefer to plough their own furrow rather ...
Everything old is new again! At first glance HP's Eliteboard G1a looks like a new MX Keys from Logitech. But under the keybed lurks an AMD Ryzen chipset, up to 2TB of storage, and, if you can afford ...
Our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] is known for being the mind behind the Commodore 128, a machine which famously had both a 6502 and a Z80 processor on board. The idea of a machine which could do the ...
In the 1980s, a computer-chip manufacturer in Bloomington needed a new factory to make products that met the security demands of the federal government and military. On a ridge just above the ...
Atari 2600 -> Atari 1200XL -> Atari 1040STf -> Atari Lynx -> Atari Jaguar -> 386 PC -> 486 PC -> Pentium II -> Xbox, PS2 -> AMD Athlon -> Athlon 64 -> Xbox 360, Phenom X3 -> Sandy Bridge Core i5, Xbox ...
As @Xepherys is saying, the 2600 is not the same thing. It's very primitive compared to the 800, which was a full blown computer with much more powerful graphic and sound chips, supporting a ton more ...