Welcome to HackSpace Magazine

Modern computers are a wonder of science and engineering. Highly skilled scientists discover ways of squeezing more and more components into the same amount of silicon. Highly skilled engineers discover ways of squeezing more and more components into the same amount of silicon. Highly skilled engineers find ways of making the components do ever more things. Highly skilled designers package all this up in ways that fit in with our lifestyles. The computers you use today are the result of nearly a hundred years of optimisations on how you can use electrons to compute.
However, like all optimizations, this process has taken something away. As utility, power, and convenience have advanced, under stability, tinker ability, and fix ability have declined. There was a time when e determined person can completely understand a computer and the software that was running on it, but that’s not possible any more. the allure of classic computers is the allure of this ability to get to grips with a computer.
At HackSpace Magazine May 2022 issue we are looking at ways of rebuilding classic machines from the past, and keeping the dream of understandable computing alive.

BEN EVERARD
Editor [email protected]

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• iCreate UK – Issue 237, 2022
• Electronic Sound – April 2022