One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains ...

Back in the 1960s, you couldn’t go on the internet to look at porn or play mini-golf. Instead you had to use this thing some once called imagination. This guy had a really nice father back in the day ...

[State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of Australia. ARCTURUS was a research computer system developed on a ...

In the 1960s, computer science students didn’t program behind a computer screen. Instead, they wrote their programs on paper and then sent them to be processed by a computer. As a result, said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have successfully revived "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, utilizing original computer code that had been forgotten ...

Looking at the photo of the back of the panel, there doesn't look to be any sort of logic there (not surprising) so all the comments about hooking it up to some sort of emulator are somewhat moot.

If it was like the 360/40 we had in school, it probably could run assembly, FORTRAN, COBOL, and possibly an early version of something like RPG. Unlike our 40, most 360 (and presumably this RCA) ...