Costco And Home Depot Still Use IBM Computers From The '80s: Here's Why

Costco sells some of the most advanced computers on the consumer market today, so you'll be surprised to learn their stores ...
Star Tribune

Remember the '80s? So does the computer system Minnesota counties rely on.

If you could travel back in time to 1989 and stop into a county office, you would find staff using MAXIS, a new, whiz-bang computer system to determine eligibility for assistance programs. No time ...
Ars Technica

Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”

Even massive Sega fans would be forgiven for not being too familiar with the Sega AI Computer. After all, the usually obsessive documentation over at Sega Retro includes only the barest stub of an ...
Hackaday

Copying Commodore Data Tapes, 40 Years Late

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in the ...
TweakTown

Your future Apple Mac will be built into the keyboard, like the 80s

I still remember my Dad walking through the door with an Amiga 500 under his arms, and a few years of my youth zapped by. The computer was built into the keyboard and if you wanted to use another 1.44 ...
IndieWire

AMC Orders Pilots for ’80s Computer Industry Drama ‘Halt & Catch Fire’ and Revolutionary War Spy Series ‘Turn’

AMC’s ordered up pilots for two scripted dramas, “Halt & Catch Fire” and “Turn,” the cable network announced today. Both are scheduled to be produced in 2013. “Halt & Catch Fire,” created by Chris ...