( August 28, 2008 )

To the source

source-code for classic arcade (and console) games. Along with chit-chat.

( August 13, 2008 )

Heathkit, come back, Heathkit!

The Heathkit Virtual Museum (review’d).

( July 28, 2008 )

IBM wants to show you the future

ibm_virtual_storage

It’s 1975, and IBM wants to show you the future. A slideshow of images. That’s a real slideshow, by the way, of real slides. No powerpoint, no laptops, no digital projects. A carousel.

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Click. Click. Click

( June 6, 2008 )

artfully unclothed

A retro-techno remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” - using a ZX Spectrum, dot-matrik printer, scanner, and hard-drives. Give it a minute to load.

A page with more details and “behind-the-scenes” photos can be found at .

( May 28, 2008 )

Paper Games

Pong as a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Interesting idea, which upon reflection seems very boring. And the specific implementation interface is horrible

( May 13, 2008 )

magnetic-electronic “paper”

( May 7, 2008 )

Certainly Interesting History

A, not just possibly as the host warns us, definitely interesting history of computing with just enough photos to whet our appetites.

( May 5, 2008 )

The French have an, uhm, curious way with copmuter commercials.

( April 14, 2008 )

Sometimes Apples SHOULD be Eaten

Thank you, Eve.

Were it not for your inspiring example, few would be playing with forbidden fruit.

Instead, we are gifted with the knowledge of experiments like running Second Life on an Apple ][c.

Well, technically the modern PC is running Second Life, and the Apple is streaming the video. Still, full-motion video on an 8-bit machine? I’m impressed.

( April 11, 2008 )

A Pictoral History of Calculating Machine Storage Devices

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