25 stories tagged computer-history, newest first.
102 points by pwg | 33 comments
Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.
60 points by ibobev | 39 comments
A Silicon Underground blog post recounting Nvidia's October 1999 release of the GeForce 256, which it marketed as the first GPU.
61 points by pseudolus | 26 comments
Ars Technica article about a Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from 30 old Mac Minis at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
53 points by debo_ | 17 comments
Atari Museum NL page about the Atari Falcon030, Atari Corporation's final computer, with a 68030 CPU and 56000 DSP, released 1992 and cancelled 1993.
51 points by mooreds | 30 comments
Computer History Museum exhibit page showing Thomas Watson Jr.'s August 1963 IBM memo about the Control Data CDC 6600 supercomputer.
89 points by npollock | 24 comments
Marcin Wichary's archived 2022 Twitter thread with photos from visits to computer museums in the Netherlands.
12 points by rbanffy | 1 comments
A blog post from a computer museum about Galaxy Game, the early coin-operated computer arcade game, showing two blue cabinets in a warehouse.
98 points by pwg | 11 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Intel 8087 coprocessor's FPTAN tangent instruction, which combines CORDIC with polynomial approximation.
47 points by abrax3141 | 12 comments
GitHub repository for a web-based emulator and operating environment for the IBM 1620 Model 2 computer, including IPL-V sample programs.
328 points by giuliomagnifico | 173 comments
A blog post on The Silicon Underground recounting the Commodore 64's launch on September 1, 1982, its 64KB of memory, and its sub-$600 price.
368 points by ingve | 197 comments
Martin Fowler bliki post revisiting Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, noting which lessons are outdated and which remain relevant in 2026.
413 points by NelsonMinar | 106 comments
Ken Shirriff blog post examining the electromechanical analog Angle Computer used in the B-52 bomber's automated celestial navigation star tracker.
561 points by DamnInteresting | 147 comments
Internet Archive scan of BYTE magazine issue #1 from September 1975, viewable in an online book reader.
337 points by zacwest | 241 comments
Communications of the ACM research article by Madhavapeddy, Scott, and Cormack reviewing ten years of Docker containers and the technical challenges behind them.
476 points by greatquux | 77 comments
Mastodon post by Rob Ricci reporting that staff found a tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973), to be delivered to the Computer History Museum.
354 points by Tomte | 138 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Pentium's ×3 multiplier circuit, used in its base-8 floating-point multiplication, and explaining how it works.
362 points by gslin | 110 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.
556 points by 1986 | 137 comments
Computer History Museum blog post in memoriam of Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), co-creator of the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth.
437 points by GavinAnderegg | 80 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post about a 1994 Navajo weaving by Marilou Schultz depicting Intel's Pentium chip, shown at the National Gallery of Art.
380 points by dboreham | 204 comments
GeekWire article reporting that Seattle's Living Computers Museum is closing permanently and Paul Allen's estate will auction its vintage computer collection.
1222 points by dcminter | 68 comments
Ars Technica obituary of Gordon Bell, architect of DEC's VAX minicomputers and computer history champion, who died at 89.
869 points by ecliptik | 315 comments
Blog post by Cabel Sasser about an early Apple Computer employee badge for Sherry Livingston, dated 1977, that turned out to be forged.
429 points by signa11 | 195 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog post explaining how early computers performed subroutine calls before they had stacks or heaps.
490 points by jorgesborges | 154 comments
A 512 Pixels project page by Stephen Hackett collecting every default macOS and Mac OS X wallpaper in 6K resolution.
385 points by zhte415 | 80 comments
Vice article about 2,200 unused vintage NABU personal computers being recovered from a barn in Massachusetts.