Open Computing History Project

A visiting research assistant spent the summer running period benchmark programs across six home computers from the project's collection. The aim was to see how well the published magazine benchmarks of the time hold up when repeated on real hardware that is now more than 25 years old.

The archive has received a nearly complete run of a regional home computing hobbyist magazine published between 1981 and 1986. The donor subscribed from the second issue onward and kept every copy in good condition, with only three issues missing from the five-year run.