Hold the phone, people, the Hubble is still broken. There was word early Thursday morning that a Monkey Island-era 486 backup computer was going to take the reigns and begin mission critical ...

For you people still using 486 personal computers, be assured that NASA still uses them, too. They just got the Hubble Space Telescope up and running again by switching to a backup 486 computer that ...

Prospects were starting to look pretty grim for the venerable Hubble telescope. Following a communications breakdown, the Hubble team postponed their scheduled repair mission from October 14th until ...

NASA engineers will bring the Hubble Space Telescope online tomorrow after two weeks of trouble for the landmark scientific instrument. A backup system, lying dormant since launch, has successfully ...

Late one night in 2002, a chemical-engineering major simulated life in a University of Michigan lab using two antiquated pieces of technology: a clunky 486 computer and an old version of a Braille ...

Q I bought a complete 266 MHz Pentium setup for about $2,500 a few months ago. Now I see the same brand-name 333 MHz package advertised for that price and one similar to mine for half that. What is ...