80s Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/80s/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:56:20 +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 80s Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/80s/ 32 32 146320098 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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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/feed/ 0 2960 Paleotronic Issue 2 Web-Release: Celebrating the CRT http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:32:03 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1455 I GREW UP WITH THE TUBE FOR A NANNY. My day would start with Sesame Street, The Great Space Coaster, Reading Rainbow, Mister Rogers… and then later in the afternoon, trashy cartoons such as The [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/feed/ 0 1455 Department Store BASIC: Learning to code via programmatic vandalism in the 1980s http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/19/department-store-basic-learning-to-code-via-programmatic-vandalism-in-the-1980s/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/19/department-store-basic-learning-to-code-via-programmatic-vandalism-in-the-1980s/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:20:59 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=776 Before MS-DOS, Microsoft’s biggest product was arguably BASIC. Variants of Microsoft BASIC shipped in most 1980s home computers, including the Commodore 64, Tandy Color Computer and the Apple II (as Applesoft BASIC). Standing for “Beginners [more...]

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