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Electrons in Motion: CRTs in Aircraft

November 16, 2018 paleotronic 0

Cathode-ray tubes weren’t just useful for radar – all sorts of aircraft indicators were displayed with them. For example, CRTs were used in the displays of radio detection finders, which used radio “beacons” broadcasting from [more…]

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RADAR: Electronics at War

November 14, 2018 paleotronic 0

RADAR: RAdio Detection / Direction And Ranging Radar uses radio waves to determine the range, angle or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect almost anything! Airborne surprises can be devastating. As the [more…]

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Hamateur Hour: Slow Scan Television

November 12, 2018 paleotronic 0

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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Logo Adventure for Apple Logo

November 10, 2018 paleotronic 0

Don Hopkins recently posted his clever Logo Adventure for C64 Terrapin Logo, a skeleton of an adventure game that uses Logo’s own parser as the parser for the game, by defining commands as procedures and using [more…]

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Emulating the Tube: Completing the Retro Experience

November 10, 2018 paleotronic 0

For some nostalgics it’s not merely enough to emulate the console or computer – they want to emulate the CRT they used it on too! The nature of cathode-ray tube displays distinctly affected how images [more…]

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CRT Trouble? Danger Will Robinson!

November 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

Danger Will Robinson! High Voltage! In order to work, a TV or monitor uses high-voltage currents which can electrocute you! For electrons to be attracted enough to the anode to leave the cathode in a [more…]

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Doctor Where? The Missing Episodes of Early Television Programs

November 4, 2018 paleotronic 0

While the age of television meant you could electronically capture a moving image and broadcast it to receivers “live”,  there quickly became an obvious need to store that moving image either for posterity or use [more…]

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Shootout of the Video Game Systems: The Age of the Light Gun

November 2, 2018 paleotronic 0

The first mechanical light-gun games appeared in the arcades and midways of the 1930s. Following the invention of the light-sensing vacuum tube, companies such as Seeburg produced games that had the tube hidden inside targets, [more…]

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Arrgh Me Hearties: 1980s Pirates’ Letters of Marque

October 31, 2018 paleotronic 0

Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Copied Floppies! Here be a proverbial rogues’ gallery of clippings just in time for Hallowe’en from 1980s computer magazines such as Byte, Analog, Creative Computing, CoCo Mag, Computers [more…]

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Horsen Around: An Interview with Teletext Artist Horsenburger

October 30, 2018 paleotronic 0

Paleotronic had a chat with prolific teletext artist Steve Horsley, aka Horsenburger, about how and why he got into teletext art. Thanks for agreeing to answer our questions! When did you first encounter teletext? What [more…]

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Our Holiday issue explored The Print Shop, Christmas and Party games and much, much more!

turtleSpaces 3D Logo Interpreter

turtleSpaces is a new expanded implementation of LCSI Apple Logo II that features 3D OpenGL graphics, shapes, lights, cameras, location detection, multiple turtles and much, much more! Great for teaching kids how to code. Check it out at turtlespaces.org

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