If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an anc ...

In the 1950s and ’60s you generally used machine language, which had commands like “sal 665” and “sal 667.” (Those tell the computer to move its accumulator, a crucial region of memory ...

machine language The Darwinian Business of Designing Machines, Part 2 In part one, industrial designer Gadi Amit discussed what it takes to make the guts of a machine.