The best special effects are often the ones you never notice–which may make Ikea the most skillful special effects studio in the world. The Swedish furniture company has been aggressively ramping up ...

An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only existed on paper. That’s not to say there aren’t scanned-in (PDF) copies of ...

The El Dorado County Library has a new computer system and online catalog. Using the new catalog, which is called iBistroª, patrons have the ability to renew items online as well as place holds on ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Beginning Nov. 19, the Library's Bridgernet Catalog will be unavailable, for several days while ...

An amateur computer historian has unearthed a cool piece of technology paraphernalia: NeXT’s Fall 1989 catalog. Kevin Savetz recently scanned the entire 138-page book, and posted the files to ...

The top graphic above shows a pretty pathetic (by today’s standards) “transportable” and “completely portable” Model 4P computer from the 1984 Radio Shack computer catalog, which was advertised as the ...