Lenovo’s upcoming 25th-anniversary edition ThinkPad is expected to feature modern specs and classic design elements, including a 7-row keyboard with raised keys, a blue enter key, and a colorful ThinkPad logo. Thanks to an image found on the Lenovo website, we have a pretty good idea of what the new laptop will look like. And […]
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Is this the Lenovo ThinkPad 25th anniversary edition?
Lenovo is planning to launch a 25th-anniversary ThinkPad laptop soon, and signs point to it being a notebook with classic ThinkPad design elements and modern specs. In fact, it may even be part of the company’s current ThinkPad T470 family. But as for the design? We already knew it’d probably have a retro-style colorful ThinkPad […]
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ZX Spectrum Next makes a classic PC modern (crowdfunding)
The ZX Spectrum personal computer was released in the UK in 1982, at a time when the Commodore 64 was taking off in the US, and the Apple II was starting to show its age. Decades later, hardware and software hackers have kept the ZX Spectrum platform alive with new features… and now a team […]
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Indiegogo cancels Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld console campaign
After raising more than £500 thousand in a crowdfunding campaign last year, the developers of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ promised to ship their retro PC-in-a-modern-handheld to backers in October. That didn’t happen. And after a repeated series of delays and promises left unkept, the BBC reports that Indiegogo has “halted” the campaign. Effectively that means […]
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ELLO 2M is a DIY portable 128K computer aimed at education/hacking (crowdfunding)
Want to learn how to program the same way people did three or four decades ago, but don’t want to hunt down an ancient PC? The ELLO 2M is a DIY computer kit with a keyboard, 7 inch touchscreen display, and an 1156-hole electronics protoyping space. The system is designed to run a version of the […]
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Commodore (sort of) launches an Android phone (with a C64 emulator)
Commodore may have stopped selling personal computers in the 1990s, but after the company went bankrupt, its assets (including the brand name) have changed hands a few times. Now an Italian company is launching a smartphone called the Commodore PET, and it has more than just the name of a classic PC maker. It also comes […]
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Would you buy a modern ThinkPad with retro design?
Laptops are getting thinner and lighter all the time… but does that mean they have to lose some of the features that were popular 20 years ago? Lenovo still offers some notebooks with a version of the company’s classic pointing stick in the center of the keyboard. But Lenovo’s David Hill wants to know if […]
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Gamebuino Arduino handheld game console for DY games
Tired of playing handheld games on your smartphone, Nintendo 3Ds, or PlayStation Vita? You could build your own handheld game system with a Gameduino. Or you could buy a system like the Gamebuino which comes with all the hardware you need… but which is designed to let you develop your own games. The Gamebuino is […]