More than four decades after Intel launched the 8088 processor, a Chinese PC maker has launched a brand new mini-laptop sporting the 4.77 MHz processor, along with support for an optional 8087 math co ...
As much as I admire the skillz that go into making these kinds of extreme retro/early days builds, I, for one, would HATE going back to that time. That's not to say I hated the times, of course. Every ...
Perhaps modern computing just isn’t thrilling you currently. (I know I have my complaints with it.) If that’s the case, a new laptop that celebrates the old, by repackaging a slice of early 1980s ...
I didn't really get into computer until ~1997-1998 and to me that was a fun time. Reading about the Pentium 2 and 3, the K^-2 and K6-3, seeing the Athlon come out, the original GeForce card etc. was ...
Intel’s 8088 processor was released in 1979 and the 4.77 MHz processor was at the heart of the first IBM PC that was released two years later. While the processor is pretty sluggish by modern ...