I quite liked Dave Bidini's National Post essay on the anniversary of the Apple 128K. My encounters with this computer were limited--I had a Commodore 64C at home, and only had early-series Apples at school--but I recognize the feelings.

Trundling out of the loading bay in the early morning, its trailers stuffed with square white boxes squeaking ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera notes the effects of population aging worldwide, observes the quarantining of four individuals possibly exposed to Ebola, comments on the huge costs associated with reconstruction in eastern Ukraine, and reports on a conference held by the Vatican on the plight of Middle Eastern Christians.
• Bloomberg notes the recovery of house prices in ( Read more... )

CBC reported in 2012 that Canadian-founded company Datawind was trying to make the world's cheapest tablet computer, for the educational market in India.

DataWind, a wireless manufacturing company started by two Indian-born, Canadian-raised brothers, Suneet and Raja Tuli, has produced what The Wall Street Journal calls the world's cheapest tablet ( Read more... )

Vintage Andy Warhol computer art, found! The press release of the Studio for Creative Inquiry makes for fun reading.


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CTV News' Andy Johnson shares the news about the death of Jack Tramiel, the businessman who founded Commodore International and started off the world on computing. My first exposure to computers in the strict sense, excluding game machines like the Atari, was to my cousin Derrick's Commodore 64, and my first personal computer was a Commodore 64.

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Charles Sorrel at Wired's Gadget Lab shared the news about the unlikely revival of the personal computers that peopled my childhood.

Just before Christmas, Commodore teased us with an Intel Atom based Commodore 64 - a regular all-in-one Ubuntu PC in the shape of the classic C64 home computer, which could also boot into a game-playing C64 emulation ( Read more... )

Thanks to zarq for linking to this classic commercial featuring William Shatner promoting the Commodore VIC-20.