A developer implemented a 6502 microprocessor emulator written in Markdown and executed it using OpenCode with the GLM 5.1 model running on Grunden.ai, following earlier experiments with a user-space …
A developer built a custom 'anti AI' computer using two Raspberry Pi Pico 2040 microcontrollers, a 2x18650 3000mAh battery with 24 hours of life at full brightness or one week on e-ink, and a Sony flo…
Matt Beton trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and built an inference engine to run it on the MOS 6502, an 8-bit processor from 1975 with 32KB RAM, which powered the BBC Micro and…
A developer successfully ran an autoregressive language model on a 1975 MOS 6502 8-bit processor inside a BBC Micro, using BitNet ternary quantization to fit 13KB of model weights and 9KB of inference…
A new essay argues that the dominant vision for AI, exemplified by Dario Amodei's 'machines of loving grace' essay, risks creating a benevolent AI dictator that concentrates power, contrasting with th…
The Apple II made its public debut at a landmark personal computer event, marking a pivotal moment for Steve Jobs. The podcast episode details the computer's introduction and Jobs' growing influence.…
A developer has created SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the Apple II series of computers, bringing a subset of the modern Swift language to the vintage 1977 machine. The pro…
Developer Yeo Kheng Meng created SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the Apple II series, bringing a subset of the modern Swift language to the 1977-era 1 MHz 6502-based compute…
The Apple II, an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak with a power supply by Rod Holt and a plastic shell by Jerry Manock, takes form under Steve Jobs' supervision. The podcast episode d…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and scienc…
In a preview of the new Designed in California podcast, the story travels to the summer of 1976 as Apple attends a computer trade show in Atlantic City, the Apple II begins to take shape, and the part…
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich gave Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 a raw 6502 machine-language binary he wrote as a teenager in 1986 for the Apple II, with no source code or documentation. The AI d…
David Pogue's new book "Apple: The First 50 Years" highlights the electrifying impact of early tech demos, contrasting the awe of seeing the Apple II at a computer faire with the deflated experience o…
The article describes the repair of a non-working Commodore PET computer from 1977, part of the "1977 Trinity" of early home computers. The repair was challenging due to multiple failed custom ROM and…