He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 ...

Ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary, RR Auction is auctioning a trove of historic artifacts, including the first check written ...

The 1990s were a golden age of experimentation in technology, a time when new gadgets promised to drastically alter how […] ...

If you’re a longtime computer user and a Tetris fan, you might remember, long ago in a land far far away, when Microsoft ...

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

Don't you hate it when you're in a hurry and you have to wait ages for Windows to start up? Or maybe you have to print a file quickly, you open it, and nothing happens? Your old computer's storage is ...

In 1985, the technology landscape was unrecognisable compared to today. Back then, the most important tool for PC users was a 5.25-inch floppy disk that stored just 360KB of data. When the 3.5-inch ...

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. TL;DR: Make an old PC feel new again for ...

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never use except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, because ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...