We covered quite a bit of retro tech this year, but there are a few things we didn’t talk about that are still worth a mention. Let’s start ...

First delivered in March 1962 The LINC – short for Laboratory INstrument Computer - was one of the world's very first minicomputers, he...

First unit shipped November 1960 In 1960, the Massachusetts firm Digital Equipment Corporation (typically known as “ DEC ” or just “ Digital...

The video terminal is the unsung hero of the computing world. Often toiling aware in warehouse, factories, colleges, shops and other place...

Well-appointed PDP-11 at TNMOC, Bletchley Launched January 1970 The Digital PDP-11 is a computer you may not have heard of, but it was ...

DEC VT100 Launched August 1978 Although the late 1970s saw the birth of the microcomputer revolution, most people in businesses and ac...

No, not SPAM but spam. Junk email. That sort of thing. You've probably seen it. You might even know that the name comes from a Monty ...

VAX 11/780 Launched October 1977 1977 was a significant year for technology, with the launch of several different brands of microco...

Launched 1977 Forty years ago we were seeing the start of a boom in personal computing .. but at the other end of the scale we were also s...

Launched December 1995 It’s difficult to imagine now, but once upon a time finding stuff on the web was *hard*.  In the early 1990s, the...

Launched September 1975 Think of the exciting end of today’s technological spectrum. You might come up with smartwatches, 4K TV and inte...