You've probably heard this story before, or perhaps lived it: Once upon a time, computers were huge. In the 1960s, a computer with the capability of, say, an Apple II, required a room full of heavy, ...

Guest author Ken Shirriff is a Silicon Valley-based computer enthusiast who enjoys reverse-engineering old chips and restoring classic equipment such as the Xerox Alto. Shirriff wrote the Arduino ...

For months, Apple has been fighting a battle to convince folks that megahertz (MHz) isn’t the ultimate benchmark in determining the speed of a computer. They haven’t made much headway, but in many ...