Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its ...

This may be the most minimal computer that we’ve ever seen running BASIC. Hackaday.io user [Kodera2t] has been working through the history of computing, so after his 4-bit CPU, he stepped up his ...

At 3pm on April 26, 1985, having been plugged into the test board attached to the BBC Micro, power was introduced and the ...

This provides the basic instructions for a PC's hardware, and is coded into the computer's ROM (or Read Only Memory). The settings in the BIOS can be modified to change certain features of how the ...