Other Stack Exchange websites cover a wide range of possible questions one can ask about computers: - software recommendations: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ - questions about running/using some programs: superuser - questions about programming: stack overflow - hardware recommendations: http://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com - … In which case is it better to ask on retrocomputing? ---------- Not covered somewhere else: - [computer history](https://retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16/171) (I guess most such questions wouldn't qualify on history Stack Exchange)