Thirty-five years ago, on April 16 and 17, 1977, more than twelve thousand proto-geeks flooded into San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. They were there to attend a new event called the West Coast ...

This will take you back to your Oregon Trail days. Photo: Rocky Bergen Even amid the three-quarters of a million residents of Winnipeg, Canada, Rocky Bergen felt alone when it came to his love of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1976, computer pioneers Steve ...

The Apple II and the iconic game The Oregon Trail launched countless computer science careers – and are twin muses for weaver Melissa Barron. The Chicago artist appreciates the similarities in a line ...

The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that ...

Prehistories of the personal -- Cultivating the Apple II -- Business : VisiCalc -- Games : Mystery House -- Utilities : Locksmith -- Home : The Print Shop -- Education : Snooper Troops -- ...

The vintage Apple II+ computer has been recreated in LEGO, including the monitor, floppy disk drives and even the Apple logos. Chiu-Kueng Tsang produced the detailed model of the computer, first on ...

The Olimex Neo6502pc is a modern mini computer designed to run some very old software. At its heart is a single-board computer that features a 6.25 MHz W65C02 processor that’s similar to the 6502 chip ...

Many of today’s franchises had their starts on humble machines such as the NES or the Apple II. Gamers who remember playing The Oregon Trail on the Apple II (or its later DOS and Windows iterations) ...