Coders at Work is a compilation of interviews with fifteen huge names in computer science--like Douglas Crockford, Guy Steele, Peter Norvig, Joe Armstrong, and, of course, Donald Knuth. Reading the ...

On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope LGP-30 computer (and several 1970 DEC PDP-8/e computers) in their grandparents’ basement. The ...

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Dear Ken: Someone wired our two basement bedrooms with no ground wires to the outlets. We now have our computer in the basement and feel we need a ground. Can we do this without tearing out the walls?

Rainwater leaking into a basement holding a hospital's computer servers has led to the cancellation of operations and other procedures. NHS Highland said the situation affecting Inverness' Raigmore ...

A duo-triode may be 2 Watts. So 113 tubes can be 226 Watts. OK, bias and coupling elements may push past 3 Watts per bottle, 339 Watts. I was just reading of an Intel NUC tiny-computer CPU of nominal ...

In context: During the 1950s and 1960s, computers were almost exclusively reserved for high-end businesses and government usage. Very few ordinary citizens had computers in their homes at the time. So ...