Items tagged with vintage

by Shane McGlaun - Fri, Jun 05, 2020

SimRefinery Is A Long-Forgotten Maxis Sim Game You Can Now Play Online

A glance at the graphics in the SimRefinery image above, and you know that this is an old game. It's actually an old, incomplete game that was recently discovered and made available to download and play on Archive.org. If you think that a game about an oil refinery sounds a bit odd, it wasn't meant for SimCity fans to... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Thu, Nov 28, 2013

RetroN 5 All-In-One Vintage Gaming Console Delayed Until After The Holidays

Here’s the bad news: Hyperkin’s RetroN 5, a gaming console that incorporates and accommodates a host of vintage game cartridges, will be delayed until Q1 2014 because of some faulty pins that the company discovered on some of its packaged units. Thus, the console won’t be available until the... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Tue, Dec 27, 2011

A 5MB Hard Drive In 1956 Weighed A Ton -- Now That's Perspective

This isn't new news, and it shouldn't be a shock to historians, but every now and then, it's really good to reach back and grab some perspective. The SSD or HDD that you're probably using now will look like a relic in just a decade, but look at what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956. IBM's 305 RAMAC was considered... Read more...

by Daniel A. Begun - Tue, Oct 28, 2008

MTV Puts "Vintage" Music Videos Online

If you are old enough to remember what MTV was like back in the 80's, then somewhere in the far recesses of your mind--sandwiched between memories of Pet Rocks and scrunchies--you once knew that when MTV first launched, "MTV" actually stood for "Music Television." With seemingly back-to-back reality shows and teen dramas now, you'd think that... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Sun, Mar 23, 2008

Wine Approaches 1.0 Vintage

The Wine project is scheduled for its 1.0 release, after nearly 15 years of development. In fact, according to their "release plan" they are trying to release it close to the 15th anniversary date.After nearly 15 years of development, the WINE project is scheduled for the landmark 1.0 release. As with most open source programs, it is hard... Read more...

by HH Editor - Tue, Apr 01, 2003

Vintage PC Collection!

The HotHardware Vintage PC Collection! A Quick Trip Down Memory Lane... By, Marco Chiappetta April 2, 2003 We spend quite a bit of time working with cutting edge technology here on HotHardware.Com. We've recently had our hands on 3.06GHz Pentium 4s, Radeon 9800 Pros, a slew of low-latency memory, the latest motherboards and even some... Read more...