My first PC, a Pentium, was just a little more modern than the model in the video embedded below. Youngsters might be charmed/horrified to realize what things were like, back then. The grinding noise ...

Of course, like-minded computer users never stopped getting together to exchange ideas. They just called these meets something different. By the 2000s, the vestigial remnants of old school ...

For as long as computers have been in the hands of programmers ... and toggle switches in a sturdy metal case sourced from an old KVM switch. Behind the scenes are a pair of I/O extenders and ...