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The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer

China is one of the world’s wealthiest digital economies today, with a hardware supply chain that is unrivaled and a panoply of prominent and massively profitable companies like Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance taking a leading role in the world. Yet, all of this cutting-edge innovation rests on a 40-year-old solution to one of the great…

11:35 am PDT • June 29, 2021
The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer

This charming man, Todd Harrison, bought a used Apple II and some drives from Ebay and did what any self-respecting geek would do: he gave them the attention and respect…

Watch This Happy, Happy Man Refurbish An Old Apple II
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Happy Birthday, Apple II

11:54 am PDT • April 17, 2012

The Apple II personal computer is 35 years old today, a bit of news that I’m sure is either making you feel wildly old or gives you an odd rush…

Happy Birthday, Apple II

Good ol’ Vince gave the new iMac keyboard a qualified thumbs up last week, and, silly you, you may be wondering how the keyboard compares to other, older Apple keyboards.…