More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...

Over on YouTube [The 8-Bit Guy] shows us how the TI-99/4A home computer worked. [The 8-Bit Guy] runs us through this odd 16-bit home computer from back in the 1980s, starting with a mention of the ...

I see in this “first computer” not just a marvel of craftsmanship, but a puzzle that keeps rewriting what we think technology is capable of in any age. Even after decades of study, the mechanism’s ...