retro-computing Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/retro-computing/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:41:27 +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 retro-computing Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/retro-computing/ 32 32 146320098 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 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 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 Issue 4 Editorial: The Computers Are Coming to Get Us! http://paleotronic.com/2019/08/14/issue-4-editorial-the-computers-are-coming-to-get-us/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/08/14/issue-4-editorial-the-computers-are-coming-to-get-us/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:23:08 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=5953 SOON, FOR HUMANITY, THE PARTY WAS GOING TO BE OVER. Successful science fiction preys on our fears of the future – nobody cares about watching a movie about the peaceful existence we’re all going to [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/08/14/issue-4-editorial-the-computers-are-coming-to-get-us/feed/ 0 5953 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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