Q: I finally upgraded my old, slow laptop for a newer model. I know throwing old computers in the dumpster is bad for the environment, but I also don’t want it just collecting dust in my home. How do ...

Sometimes it can feel like a slow laptop or a balky phone is so old that it belongs in a museum, but the Vintage Computer Festival West celebrates pieces of technology from decades past that actually ...

The Wisconsin Computer Club will be hosting a pop-up vintage technology museum at the Hedberg Public Library In Janesville on Saturday, Feb. 7, starting at 11 a.m. Stop by the ...

Some computers are ready for a new lease on life. Computer companies come out with new machines every year: faster, better, more powerful, more efficient, and sometimes even cheaper. But what do you ...

When Levi Maaia’s mother, a school teacher, brought home the Apple IIGS in the late ‘80s, to say it made a lasting impact is an understatement. He and his family used the computer far beyond its ...

Old computers tend to lead sedentary lives. Parked in shelves and closets, maybe touched by the occasional dusting; the lucky ones still run old games from time to time. But sometimes one becomes a ...

Old computers — everyone has one (or at least parts of one) collecting dust in the attic somewhere. Depending on when you bought it, it might have been obsolete within a year, or, if you were a very ...

Run Windows XP, Mac OS 9, Windows 11, Super Mario Bros. and more on your Mac. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Collecting old video game consoles and vintage computers is a fun hobby, but ...

Really cool read. The z80 was everywhere in the 80s. Colecovision, game gear, TI calculators (all things I had). Game boy was not quite a z80 but something kind of similar. The article mentioned the ...