We’ve seen our share of homebrew computers over the years. Usually, these bare-bone systems use a small, early 80s-era microprocessor such as the Z80 or 6502. These little 8-bit machines are awesome, ...

Today’s accelerating adoption of cloud services in enterprise computing, coupled with the seemingly unstoppable momentum of all things social and mobile, makes the emergence of the personal computer ...

Before today, we probably would have said that scratch-built relay computers were the sole domain of only the most wizardly of graybeards. But this impressive build sent in by [Will Dana] shows that ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--If you've never seen a couple hundred bona-fide geeks sitting on the edge of their seats with excitement, you should have been on hand Saturday for an appreciation of the 30th ...

I never belonged to Silicon Valley’s famous Homebrew Computer Club. I was a little too young to have joined it in its prime, and I lived on the wrong coast. But by the time I got interested in PCs in ...

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The halcyon days of the late 1970s birthed companies like Apple and Microsoft out of the homebrew computer movement, wherein people in garages used cheap commodity parts to build computers–and then ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Despite its humble name, the Homebrew ...

An informal group of hobbyists interested in promoting computers for the masses. Founded in 1975 by Gordon French and Fred Moore, Homebrew Computer Club members first met at a Community Computer ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In this corner, it's Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. In that corner, it's phone phreaking pioneer Captain Crunch. Over there, it's Apple employee No. 1 Bill Fernandez, and ...

Apple I nerds may be interested in a Homebrew Computer Club retrospective at the Vintage Computer Festival this weekend in Mountain View, California. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak will be there, as ...