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Got an old #PC knocking about and don't want to throw it away? Here are some amazing ways to repurpose and reuse an old computer. #reuse #recycle #sustainable #repurpose #upcycle #oldPc #ideas

Colossus Computer 1943

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When I found out that the Computer History Museum has a working IBM 1401 computer[1], I wondered if it could generate the Mandelbrot fractal. I wrote a fractal program in assembly language and the computer chugged away for 12 minutes to create the Mandelbrot image on its line printer. In the process I learned a bunch of interesting things about the IBM 1401, which I discuss in this article. The IBM 1401 mainframe computer (left) at the Computer History Museum printing the Mandelbrot fractal…

UNIVACComputing burst into popular culture with UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), arguably the first computer to become a household name. A versatile, general-purpose machine, UNIVAC was the brainchild of John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, creators of ENIAC. They proposed a statistical tabulator to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1946, and in 1951 UNIVAC I passed Census Bureau tests. Within six years, 46 of the million-dollar UNIVAC systems had been installed—with the last operating until 1970.

Ars editors remember the computers that began their digital lives.

### DESCRIPTIONThis is the Z80-MBC (Multi Boot Computer), a mini 4MHz Z80 64kB RAM system with Basic and Forth interpreters, CP/M 2.2, QP/M 2.71, Assembler and C toolchains.It is a complete develo...

Take a stroll down the memory lane and look at history from another angle.