Old mainframe computers are interesting, especially to those of us who weren’t around to see them in action. We sit with old-timers and listen to their stories of the good ol’ days. They tell us about ...

The polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), in addition to independently inventing calculus, also invented binary arithmetic, the representational basis for today’s digital computing. This is ...

The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs just put up a post on the giant mechanical binary computer they brought to last month’s Maker Faire. As a faithful reproduction of the Digi-Comp II from the 1960s, ...

Including transistor-level implementations, this comprehensive book offers a friendly presentation of the fundamental principles and practices of modern digital design, as well as complete, realistic, ...

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...

Base-2 system helped to simplify calculations centuries before Europeans rediscovered it. Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented ...

Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!” Any code that uses just two symbols to represent information is considered binary ...