As you may recall, my current “project du jour” is the Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg (HRRG) Mixed Technology Computer. The idea is to build a simple computer as a collection of glass-fronted wooden ...

For the vast majority of us, computer memory is a somewhat abstract idea. Whether you’re declaring a variable in Python or setting a register in Verilog, the data goes — somewhere — and the rest ...

Many Hackaday readers will be familiar with the term “core memory”, likely thanks to its close association with the Apollo Guidance Computer. But knowing that the technology existed at one point and ...