There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun, the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul: Why is the C64—by far the best-selling home ...

Yeah, COBOL is still used a lot in the financial sector... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, that would have been hugely useful in a number of other BASICs. It was always a pain to run out of ...

On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a ...