June 5, 1977: The first Apple II, the personal computer that will put Cupertino on the map, goes on sale. Previously shown off to a few thousand rabid fans at the West Coast Computer Faire, the Apple ...

The Commodore 64C Ultimate, scheduled for release later this year, revisits the iconic Commodore 64C with a focus on preserving its original experience while incorporating modern technology. By using ...

Through the looking glass: Apple turned 50 this week as a multi-trillion-dollar platform company built around the iPhone, the most successful product ever made, along with laptops, tablets, ...

What if you could hold the past in your hands, only reimagined for the present? The Commodore 64, a symbol of 1980s computing, has always been a touchstone for tech nostalgia. But what if this iconic ...

Over on YouTube, [Ben Eater] pursues that classic 8-bit sound. In this video, [Ben] integrates the MOS Technology 6581 Sound Interface Device (SID) with his homegrown 6502. The 6581 SID was famously ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Introduced to the world in 1977, the history of the Apple II is synonymous with Apple’s growth, success, and, ultimately, some of the troubles it dealt with early on in its history. A line of ...

The modern CPU or Central Processing Unit is basically the “brain” of a computer. It is responsible for processing all the instructions in a computer program, executing functions, and performing ...

Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemical and Technology-Prague, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic ...