In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...

The Commodore International computer and electronics company’s machines are upgradeable and still can be used, more than two decades after the company went out of business. Once a month, a group of ...

This year marks the anniversary of the most popular selling home computer ever, the Commodore 64, which made its debut in 1982. Note that I am saying “home computer” and not personal computer (PC) ...

KENNETT SQDUARE-If necessity is the mother of invention, obsolescence might be the mother of ingenuity. Bill Degnan, owner of the newly opened Kennett Classic vintage computing gallery and gift shop ...

Photo: Commodore USA The vintage Commodore 64 personal computer is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback. The ...

The keyboard of the iconic Commodore 64. Thirty years ago, Commodore Business Machines released the Commodore 64, an 8-bit home personal computer that became an iconic cultural force. With its low ...

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 ...

In late October, a Swedish software engineer named Linus Åkesson unveiled a playable accordion—called “The Commodordion”—he crafted out of two vintage Commodore 64 computers connected with a bellows ...

Remember Commodore, the iconic home computer that helped bring computing to the masses over 30 years ago? It's back—this time as a smartphone. But the smartphone, dubbed the Commodore PET, comes not ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...