[Morley Kert] had a problem. He’s a big fan of the lovely Fortune Chair from Heller Furniture. Only, he didn’t want to pay $1,175 for a real one. The solution? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/you-wouldnt-download-a-chair-but-you-could/)

Retrotechtacular: Color TV
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/retrotechtacular-color-tv/

We have often wondered if people dreamed in black and white before the advent of photography. While color pictures eventually became the norm, black and white TV was common for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/retrotechtacular-color-tv/)

A Brief History of Cyrix, or How to Get Sued By Intel a Lot
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/a-brief-history-of-cyrix-or-how-to-get-sued-by-intel-a-lot/

In a new installment on computer history, [Bradford Morgan White] takes us through the sordid history of Cyrix, as this plucky little company created the best math co-processors (FasMath) and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/a-brief-history-of-cyrix-or-how-to-get-sued-by-intel-a-lot/)

Teaching Computers to Read — Sort Of
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/teaching-computers-to-read-sort-of/

If you ask someone who grew up in the late 1970s or early 1980s what taught them a lot about programming, they’d probably tell you that typing in programs from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/teaching-computers-to-read-sort-of/)

WAV2VGM Plays Audio Via OPL3 Synthesis
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/wav2vgm-plays-audio-via-opl3-synthesis/

Once upon a time, computers didn’t really have enough resources to play back high-quality audio. It took too much RAM and too many CPU cycles and it was just altogether …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/wav2vgm-plays-audio-via-opl3-synthesis/)

The End of Ondsel and Reflecting on the Commercial Prospects for FreeCAD
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/the-end-of-ondsel-and-reflecting-on-the-commercial-prospects-for-freecad/

Within the world of CAD there are the well-known and more niche big commercial players and there are projects like FreeCAD that seek to bring a OSS solution to the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/the-end-of-ondsel-and-reflecting-on-the-commercial-prospects-for-freecad/)

Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk?
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/remember-the-tri-format-floppy-disk/

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/remember-the-tri-format-floppy-disk/)

Intuition about Maxwell’s Equations
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/intuition-about-maxwells-equations/