If you study the history of computing you might have heard of the FACOM 128B, a Japanese relay computer from 1958. It holds the distinction of being a contender for the oldest computer that still ...

We are probably all familiar with computing history to the extent that we know the earliest computers were surprisingly simple devices. While early electronic machines such as Colossus or ENIAC were ...

This mini-series of articles describes how to build a computer’s CPU (central processing unit) out of relays. “Y” in English sounds like “guay” in Spanish (my mother tongue), a colloquial expression ...

A moth taped to a logbook page in 1947 became one of the most repeated origin stories in computing, and the physical evidence still exists. During testing of the Harvard Mark II at a Navy facility, ...

The computing collection contains several schematics of the computer system X-66744, created by Samuel B. Williams and George Stibitz at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City. Williams and ...

You think having some Windows XP machines in-house is bad? Try maintaining a computer built before Bill Gates had hit first grade. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

66 years ago today, on the 9th September, 1947, operators of the Mark II Aiken Relay Computer being tested at Harvard University, found something curious trapped between points at Relay #70, Panel F.

Once you’ve seen this beauty of a relay computer in action, you’ll find it hard to resist the lure of building something similar yourself. Once you’ve seen this beauty of a relay computer in action, ...