This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/floss-weekly-episode-797-coreutils-dont-rm-r-up-the-tree/)

Atari Announces the Atari 7800+ Nostalgia Console
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/atari-announces-the-atari-7800-nostalgia-console/

Following the trend of re-releasing every single game console as some kind of modern re-imagining or merely an ARM-SBC-with-emulator slapped into a nice looking enclosure, we now got the announcement …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/atari-announces-the-atari-7800-nostalgia-console/)

Farewell Magnetic Stripe
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/farewell-magnetic-stripe/

For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets to ID badges. But the BBC reports — unsurprisingly — that the mag stripe’s days …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/farewell-magnetic-stripe/)

The First Mass Produced DRAM of the Soviet Union
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565RU1 die manufactured in 1981.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/565RU1_DRAM_1981_die_shot.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/565RU1_DRAM_1981_die_shot.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">Although the benefits of semiconductor technology were undeniable during the second half the 20th century, there was a clear divide between the two sides of the Iron Curtain. Whilst the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/the-first-mass-produced-dram-of-the-soviet-union/)

Tiny ’90s Laptop Gets Modern Power
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/tiny-90s-laptop-gets-modern-power/

The laptop to have here in the 2020s varies depending on who you ask, perhaps a Framework, or maybe a ThinkPad. Back in the 1990s the answer might have included …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/tiny-90s-laptop-gets-modern-power/)

Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/22/happy-birthday-to-dad-retrocomputer-style/

For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail end, in our case — it’s hard to believe that there’s a second wave of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/22/happy-birthday-to-dad-retrocomputer-style/)

Running Stock MS-DOS on a Modern ThinkPad
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/22/running-stock-ms-dos-on-a-modern-thinkpad/

It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/22/running-stock-ms-dos-on-a-modern-thinkpad/)

Tech in Plain Sight: Speedometers
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/22/tech-in-plain-sight-speedometers/