After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

With the continuing manufacture of new computers, there is a clear and obvious trend of the parallel port becoming less and less common. For our younger readers; the parallel port is an interface ...

we are going to use additional ICs (integrated circuits) in the form of shift registers, to enable us to drive LEDs to display a binary counter (we will explain what binary is shortly). In this ...