Consumer Electronics Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/category/consumer-electronics/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Consumer Electronics Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/category/consumer-electronics/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 Gerbil in a Microwave: Radio Death Rays! http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/12/gerbil-in-a-microwave-radio-death-rays/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/12/gerbil-in-a-microwave-radio-death-rays/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:56:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14743 In 1999, the Internet went nuclear over an Macromedia Flash animation that allowed the user to microwave a cartoon gerbil until it exploded! Joe Cartoon was a website created by Joseph Shields that featured crude [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/12/gerbil-in-a-microwave-radio-death-rays/feed/ 0 14743 The Horrors of Capacitance Electronic Disk (CED) http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/04/the-horrors-of-capacitance-electronic-disk-ced/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/04/the-horrors-of-capacitance-electronic-disk-ced/#respond Sat, 03 Oct 2020 14:00:21 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14449 While Asian manufacturers were feverishly working on perfecting videotape, American RCA was working on a videodisc system – not a laserdisc system, which did not contact the surface of the disc, but instead a system [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/04/the-horrors-of-capacitance-electronic-disk-ced/feed/ 0 14449 Lasers, Discs and Dragons: Remembering Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/06/lasers-and-dragons-remembering-don-bluths-dragons-lair/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/06/lasers-and-dragons-remembering-don-bluths-dragons-lair/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2020 01:29:10 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=12635 When animator Don Bluth agreed to animate an obscure laserdisc videogame tentatively titled “The Dragon’s Lair”, little did he know it would become one of his biggest successes… Dragon’s Lair… Dragon’s Lair… ah yes Dragon’s [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/06/lasers-and-dragons-remembering-don-bluths-dragons-lair/feed/ 0 12635 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:30:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9703 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/feed/ 0 9703 Gadget Graveyard: Dot-Matrix Printers http://paleotronic.com/2019/08/26/gadget-graveyard-dot-matrix-printers/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/08/26/gadget-graveyard-dot-matrix-printers/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2019 04:50:44 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=6367 You might have got the impression, upon entering Jane Smith’s house (sometime in 1986) that her husband was in the process of renovating their kitchen, the sound of a power tool growling and grinding away [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/08/26/gadget-graveyard-dot-matrix-printers/feed/ 0 6367 The Toy Store: The Milton Bradley Big Trak http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/09/the-toy-store-the-milton-bradley-big-trak/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/09/the-toy-store-the-milton-bradley-big-trak/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2019 02:40:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3991 One of the hottest Christmas toys of 1979 was a lunar-inspired tank that taught rudimentary computer programming! The Milton Bradley Big Trak (also stylised as bigtrak) is a programmable toy resembling a futuristic utility vehicle [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/09/the-toy-store-the-milton-bradley-big-trak/feed/ 0 3991 Flying to the Moon and crashing back to Earth: the meteoric rise and fall of Imagic http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/20/flying-to-the-moon-and-crashing-back-to-earth-the-meteoric-rise-and-fall-of-imagic/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/20/flying-to-the-moon-and-crashing-back-to-earth-the-meteoric-rise-and-fall-of-imagic/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 01:43:50 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3783 Upon viewing Moonsweeper for the first time the word ‘wow’ just doesn’t seem to do it justice, yet it’s the first word to form in most people’s brains. It just seems to trite, so simple, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/20/flying-to-the-moon-and-crashing-back-to-earth-the-meteoric-rise-and-fall-of-imagic/feed/ 0 3783 GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:06:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3390 Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/feed/ 0 3390 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (Combined Download) http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:55:41 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2960 Our tour of electronic Christmas gifts past has concluded, but if you missed it, don’t worry! You can catch up by downloading all of the episodes in a single file via the link below. Download [more...]

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