Telecommunications Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/category/telecommunications/ 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 Telecommunications Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/category/telecommunications/ 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 Videotex: An Early Experiment in Art Delivered Digitally http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/videotex-an-early-experiment-in-art-delivered-digitally/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/videotex-an-early-experiment-in-art-delivered-digitally/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:04:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=12553 So, we’ve seen that digital creativity in the 1980s had a few avenues that could be explored: Logo let you draw to the screen programatically with the turtle, you could paint on the CRT with [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/videotex-an-early-experiment-in-art-delivered-digitally/feed/ 0 12553 Interview with a Sysop: The Lower Planes BBS http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/09/interview-with-a-sysop-the-lower-planes-bbs/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/09/interview-with-a-sysop-the-lower-planes-bbs/#respond Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:20:55 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10121 Sysop of The Lower Planes BBS Anthony Adverse answers a few of our questions about the Australian BBS Scene… Thanks for taking the time to chat with us! Firstly, we assume you were a BBS [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/09/interview-with-a-sysop-the-lower-planes-bbs/feed/ 0 10121 From Pocket Computers to Palmtops: An Early History of Mobile Telecomputing http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/from-pocket-computers-to-palmtops-an-early-history-of-mobile-telecomputing/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/from-pocket-computers-to-palmtops-an-early-history-of-mobile-telecomputing/#respond Sat, 28 Sep 2019 02:36:48 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=7412 What could be better than connecting to another computer remotely? How about remotely connecting remotely? While these days we take the ‘always connected’ nature of our mobile phones for granted, back in the early 1980s [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/from-pocket-computers-to-palmtops-an-early-history-of-mobile-telecomputing/feed/ 0 7412 Diversi-Dial: An Apple II Party Line http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/diversi-dial-an-apple-ii-party-line/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/diversi-dial-an-apple-ii-party-line/#respond Sat, 28 Sep 2019 01:57:17 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=7399 While using an on-line service like CompuServe allowed you to chat with people all around the world, its per-hour charge was not that attractive to perpetually-broke teenagers. Also, you couldn’t really go ‘hang out’ with [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/diversi-dial-an-apple-ii-party-line/feed/ 0 7399 Pay By The Minute: The CompuServe Era http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/24/pay-by-the-minute-the-compuserve-era/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/24/pay-by-the-minute-the-compuserve-era/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:17:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=7266 So, what if we made a really big Bulletin Board System, one that could be dialed-in to from any city, and where thousands of people could interact, rather than just a few?   These days [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/24/pay-by-the-minute-the-compuserve-era/feed/ 0 7266 BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989 http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/04/bbses-partying-online-like-its-1989/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/04/bbses-partying-online-like-its-1989/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2019 03:22:53 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=6638 While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/04/bbses-partying-online-like-its-1989/feed/ 0 6638 A microM8 update and a glimpse into the future of Paleotronic http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 02:13:51 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4596 The latest update to microM8 adds a few new features and fixes a few outstanding bugs. Platoterm support Mockingboard enhancement Original Apple II and 13-sector disk support Compatibility improvements Taking microM8 (and Paleotronic) into the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/feed/ 0 4596 Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977) http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/30/arthur-c-clarke-communications-in-the-second-century-of-the-telephone-1977/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/30/arthur-c-clarke-communications-in-the-second-century-of-the-telephone-1977/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:34:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3282 While researching for our magazine we sometimes find nuggets buried by time that have been forgotten by the Internet. This particular nugget was found in the May 1977 issue of Creative Computing. Science fiction author [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/30/arthur-c-clarke-communications-in-the-second-century-of-the-telephone-1977/feed/ 0 3282 The Mystery of the Missing Moon Tapes http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-moon-tapes/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-moon-tapes/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:08:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3243 A desire to have the moon walk broadcast during prime-time US viewing hours, after the moon set there,  meant that NASA would have to rely on a dish in a sheep paddock in Australia to [more...]

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