KIMdle: Sorta-Wordle for the KIM-1

Wordle mania (trademark, probably, of the New York Times ) continues. My wife and I, who bonded over word games and later got married becau...

Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors)

We're house hunting because of $JOB and $HOUR hour commute, and I just got word that the reseller I contract with for Floodgap's leased li...

Shiner ESB, an Apple Network Server prototype, and what it did at Netscape/MCom

The Apple Network Server was, with the possible exception of the Apple Workgroup Server 95, Apple's first true server. I have a particula...

Cracking into the Sun Ray General Dynamics-Tadpole M1400

Tadpole has this storied history as a maker of truly unusual laptops, particularly after their 1998 merger with RDI, another company that ma...