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A Faux BBS Gets Software On To Your Vintage Machines

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By Lewin Day | April 14, 2021

Back in the golden age of modems and phone lines, bulletin board systems, or BBSes, were a great way to find new software from the comfort of your own home. …read more
Morrowind Rebooted The Original Xbox Without You Ever Noticing

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By Lewin Day | April 14, 2021

The original Xbox was well-known for being based on basic PC hardware, and among developers, well known for having just 64 megabytes of RAM which even at the time wasn’t …read more
Remote Controlled Car Gets Active Suspension

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By Bryan Cockfield | April 14, 2021

Active suspensions are almost a holy grail for cars, adding so much performance gain that certain types have even been banned from Formula 1 racing. That doesn’t stop them from …read more
Logic Chip Teardown From Early 1990s IBM ES/9000 Mainframe

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By Maya Posch | April 14, 2021

The 1980s and early 1990s were a bit of an odd time for semiconductor technology, with the various transistor technologies that had been used over the decades slowly making way …read more
SV Seeker Is Recycling Batteries

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By Jonathan Bennett | April 14, 2021

SV Seeker is a home-made boat currently being built by [Doug Jackson] just north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It’s a bit different than what you might imagine as a typical DIY …read more
History Of Closed Captions: The Analog Era

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By Chris Lott | April 14, 2021

Closed captioning on television and subtitles on DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming media are taken for granted today. But it wasn’t always so. In fact, it was quite a struggle for …read more
You Need An Automated Overhead Camera Assistant

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By Kristina Panos | April 14, 2021

It’s 2021. Everyone and their mother is filming themselves doing stuff, and a lot of it is super cool content. But since most of us have to also work the …read more

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