MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his ...

A Univac mainframe, early hard disk drives, Zork, and an Altair 8800 at VCF East 2014. What do you get when you combine several hundred serious geeks, two large rooms, five decades’ worth of vintage ...

If you’re on the US East Coast, you should head on over to Wall, NJ and check out the Vintage Computer Festival East. After all, [Brian Kernighan] is going to be there. Yes, that [Brian Kernighan].

It’s hard to believe, but before that phone in your hand existed people used to tap on boxy, clunky machines called “computers.” Now the golden era of desktop computing will be feted at the Vintage ...

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credit Photos: Lane Hartwell Equal parts flea market, film festival, conference and workshop, the 10th iteration of the Vintage Computer Festival attracted the usual mix of die-hard computer ...

You would have to ride in a time machine back to 1976 and that garage on Crist Drive in Los Altos, Calif., to find 10 Apple 1 computers in the same space. But this weekend, 10 or more will be ...

A growing community of vintage computer collectors is preserving the classic machines that helped launch the digital revolution.

Before the invention of laptops and tablets, using technology to learn meant visiting your school's computer lab. From modern computing's early beginnings in the 1930s to the rise of the personal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1981 Commodore SP9000 “Super PET” computer and floppy disk drives are displayed at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain ...

Spring has sprung at the Jersey Shore, and for retrocomputer aficionados that can only mean one thing — the Vintage Computer Festival East is imminent. The East Coast’s premier event for classic ...

Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life.