australia Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/australia/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:20:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png australia Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/australia/ 32 32 146320098 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 ARC: The Adelaide Retro-Computing Group http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/arc-the-adelaide-retro-computing-group/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/arc-the-adelaide-retro-computing-group/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2019 02:29:22 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9868 Today almost everyone will use a computer, or some form of computer controlled hardware to do their job. When they get home they might play games on their PC or Mac, or use social media [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/arc-the-adelaide-retro-computing-group/feed/ 0 9868 Learn about Australia’s government like it’s 1991 – on the Apple II! http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/17/learn-about-australia-like-its-1991-on-the-apple-ii/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/17/learn-about-australia-like-its-1991-on-the-apple-ii/#respond Fri, 17 May 2019 04:06:49 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4494 Happy Election Eve! Over the past few years, Australian Apple II aficionado Jeremy Barr-Hyde has managed to diligently bring a number of Australian Apple II software titles back from the dead, including such downunder classics as ‘The [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/17/learn-about-australia-like-its-1991-on-the-apple-ii/feed/ 0 4494 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 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 The Wonder from Down Under: The Fairlight CMI Digital Sampling Synthesiser http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/16/the-wonder-from-down-under-the-fairlight-cmi-digital-sampling-synthesiser/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/16/the-wonder-from-down-under-the-fairlight-cmi-digital-sampling-synthesiser/#respond Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:25:59 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1804 After Sydney-native Peter Vogel graduated from high school in 1975, his classmate Kim Ryrie approached him with the idea of a creating a computer microprocessor-driven electronic musical synthesiser. Ryrie was frustrated with his attempts at [more...]

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