Television Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/television/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Television Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/television/ 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 The Crystal Ball: Frightening Futures http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/03/the-crystal-ball-frightening-futures/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/03/the-crystal-ball-frightening-futures/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:00:04 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14430 Realising that an entity of pure logic might pose a threat to humanity, science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned the above three laws for robots… they seem sensible enough, but what if, when the time [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/03/the-crystal-ball-frightening-futures/feed/ 0 14430 Lunar Rangers: Discovering just what, exactly, the Moon was made of… http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/24/lunar-rangers-discovering-just-what-exactly-the-moon-was-made-of/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/24/lunar-rangers-discovering-just-what-exactly-the-moon-was-made-of/#respond Fri, 24 May 2019 07:09:05 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4568 Before one could land on the Moon, one needed to learn more about it. What was  the surface made of? What was the terrain like? Where would we land? The Ranger missions hoped to assist [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/24/lunar-rangers-discovering-just-what-exactly-the-moon-was-made-of/feed/ 0 4568 The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there… http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/20/the-moon-tube-1969-televisions-lunar-science-fiction-and-dreams-of-the-future/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:35:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3446 What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set? RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were [more...]

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]]> 3446 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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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-moon-tapes/feed/ 0 3243 Live from the Moon: One Giant Transmission for Humankind http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/25/live-from-the-moon-one-giant-transmission-for-mankind/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/25/live-from-the-moon-one-giant-transmission-for-mankind/#respond Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:17:10 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3210 The impact the live broadcast of the Moon walk had on the populace of Western countries cannot be overstated. Witnessing such a momentous event live made people feel they were a part of it, and [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/25/live-from-the-moon-one-giant-transmission-for-mankind/feed/ 0 3210 Android Dreams: The Sliced Salami Society Investigates the Murderer on Channel 4 http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/29/android-dreams-the-sliced-salami-society-investigates-the-murderer-on-channel-4/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/29/android-dreams-the-sliced-salami-society-investigates-the-murderer-on-channel-4/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:06:04 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2305 Vera did as he had done for so many Tuesday nights before: she made her cup of tea, got her little biscuits from the tin above the sink, and headed for her living room, sitting [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/29/android-dreams-the-sliced-salami-society-investigates-the-murderer-on-channel-4/feed/ 0 2305 Pong: or, how I learned to love getting paddled http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/24/pong-or-how-i-learned-to-love-getting-paddled/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/24/pong-or-how-i-learned-to-love-getting-paddled/#respond Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:43:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2270 In the 1960s, television was something that was a passive occupation, you turn it on an it entertained you. The possibility that you might be able to create or manage what you saw on the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/24/pong-or-how-i-learned-to-love-getting-paddled/feed/ 0 2270 The Business of Television http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/18/the-business-of-television/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/18/the-business-of-television/#respond Sun, 18 Nov 2018 02:37:21 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2227 The ability to broadcast moving images over-the-air was a miracle, but the question then became: “Who was going to pay for it?” In the United Kingdom, the answer was the television set owners. Since 1904 [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/18/the-business-of-television/feed/ 0 2227 Hamateur Hour: Slow Scan Television http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/12/hamateur-hour-slow-scan-television/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/12/hamateur-hour-slow-scan-television/#respond Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:57:49 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2160 Given the right conditions, amateur radio operators can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world. But what about television? Could that be sent around the world too? Analog television transmitted a lot of information, and [more...]

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