Usually, when we are talking about old computers, we are thinking of BASIC interpreters. But [Fireship] reminds us that it was originally Fortran and promises to give you the essentials …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/looking-at-fortran-in-100-seconds/)

Impatience is a Virtue When Testing This Old Maritime Teleprinter
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/impatience-is-a-virtue-when-testing-this-old-maritime-teleprinter/

[Larry Wall], inventor of Perl, once famously said that programmers have three key virtues: sloth, hubris, and impatience. It’s safe to say that these personality quirks are also present in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/impatience-is-a-virtue-when-testing-this-old-maritime-teleprinter/)

Fighting the Good Fight
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/fighting-the-good-fight/

We here at Hackaday are super-duper proponents of open source. Software, hardware, or firmware, we like to be able to see it, learn from it, modify it, and make it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/fighting-the-good-fight/)

A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/a-look-back-at-the-ussr-computer-industry/

According to [Asianometry], in 1986 the Soviet Union had about 10,000 computers. At the same time, the United States had 1.3 million! The USSR was hardly a backward country — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/a-look-back-at-the-ussr-computer-industry/)

Riding The Rails, In A Literal Sense
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/riding-the-rails-in-a-literal-sense/

Hundreds of miles of railroad tracks are scattered across the US and other countries. Despite how they look, many aren’t abandoned. But in the case of a genuinely abandoned track, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/riding-the-rails-in-a-literal-sense/)

Restoring $5 Busted Synthesizer Made Easy, Thanks to Thermal
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/restoring-5-busted-synthesizer-made-easy-thanks-to-thermal/

[D. Scott Williamson] paid $5 for a Roland JV-30 synthesizer at a garage sale. Score! There was only one catch: it didn’t work and didn’t include the power supply. Luckily, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/restoring-5-busted-synthesizer-made-easy-thanks-to-thermal/)

Neural Network Identifies Insects, Outperforming Humans
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/neural-network-identifies-insects-outperforming-humans/

There are about one million known species of insects – more than for any other group of living organisms. If you need to determine which species an insect belongs to, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/neural-network-identifies-insects-outperforming-humans/)

Turning Irregular Shapes
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/turning-irregular-shapes/