Thirty-somethings Tash and her brother Jamie didn’t mean to time travel back to October 1984, but bizarrely they did on the very day that Bob Geldof watched the BBC news report which moved him to form Band Aid and record… Read More ›
Retro
Apple’s biggest disaster
As disastrous as the Newton was from a business perspective I still look at it with some fondness. It feels ahead of its time in terms of how personal it was to use, but strangely for Apple it was much… Read More ›
Remembering the Palm Centro
I remember the Palm Centro very well and after the Trio I was not impressed. I liked the Tree a lot, despite the well known memory problems, but the Centro was a plastic attempt to make the Tree more friendly…. Read More ›
Consoles of the ’70s
As the first home console ever, the Odyssey ran on batteries and games came on removable circuit cards, not cartridges. The Odyssey tragically lacked sound capability, but that was later rectified. Also looks uncannily like a defibrillator… More here. I… Read More ›
Recovering lost software
At the beginning of the home computer revolution, the humble compact cassette was far and away the most popular choice for microcomputer data storage, especially on the European continent. As a volunteer at the Museum of Computing, [Keith] was instrumental… Read More ›
Pong decoded
Here the circuitry to display the score has been added. It uses a 7-segment LED decoder to convert the digits into segments that can be displayed on the screen with some logic. Some additional logic makes sure that the decoder’s… Read More ›
The Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk1: cooler than most other cars on the road?
I ended up stopped next to a Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk1 over the weekend and my word it was a vision! It was small, very small compared to most cars of today, but was in near perfect condition and it… Read More ›
Pac-Man banned
Pessimists Archive is always worth following for nuggets like the above.
Retro mobile done right (Retromobe)
I discovered Retromobe the other day and it has turned out to be a treasure trove that details the early days of mobile technology. The content has been added since 2007 and the number of posts has grown each year… Read More ›
Psion User (Winter 98/99)
My daughter found a copy of Psion User that has been lost in a cupboard and it dates back 23 years. I still have some fond moments come back to me reading this. Hopefully some of you will too.
