For this year’s Hackaday Prize, we’re doing something special. We’re introducing achievements for Prize projects. Think of them as merit badges. If your Hackaday Prize project has multiple parts that ...

If you study the history of computing you might have heard of the FACOM 128B, a Japanese relay computer from 1958. It holds the distinction of being a contender for the oldest computer that still ...

Once you’ve seen this beauty of a relay computer in action, you’ll find it hard to resist the lure of building something similar yourself. Once you’ve seen this beauty of a relay computer in action, ...

This mini-series of articles describes how to build a computer’s CPU (central processing unit) out of relays. “Y” in English sounds like “guay” in Spanish (my mother tongue), a colloquial expression ...

TOKYO, Aug 21, 2018 — Fujitsu today announced that Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science has decided to register its FACOM128B relay-type automatic computer(1) as “Essential Historical ...