Brave users of history’s earliest computers programmed those massive electronic beasts through jumper wires plugged into arrays of sockets. With so few computers in existence (none of them compatible ...

The chances of walking into a UK school without any computer equipment in today's world are practically zero. But 45 years ago things were very different. Staff at the AQA exam board have been ...

We often think that not enough people are building things with FPGAs. We also love the retrotechtacular posts on old computer hardware. So it was hard to pass up [karlwoodward’s] post about the Chip ...

Building a paper tape reader by itself isn’t super complicated: you need a source of light, some photoreceptors behind the tape to register the presence of holes and some way to pull the tape through ...

Few schools had their own computers in the early 1970s - but by the end of the decade many began to invest in models such as the Elliott 903 The chances of walking into a UK school without any ...

(1) A slow, low-capacity, sequential storage medium used on earlier computing and communications devices. Paper tape holds data as patterns of punched holes. (2) A paper roll printed by a calculator ...

Few schools had their own computers in the early 1970s - but by the end of the decade many began to invest in models such as the Elliott 903 The chances of walking into a UK school without any ...

Few schools had their own computers in the early 1970s - but by the end of the decade many began to invest in models such as the Elliott 903 The chances of walking into a UK school without any ...