Atari
Arcade Rats on the Moon!
During the 1960s the world was experiencing space fever. It was an ailment for which there was no cure, nor did anybody want one. During the 1950s the United States and Soviet Union had sent [more…]
Month: February 2019
Space
The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…
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…]
Announcements
GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival
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…]
Apple II
New microM8 release supports WOZ2, DHGR artifacting
The latest microM8 release supports the Applesauce WOZ2 format, has improved DHGR rendering (with NTSC artifacting) and a refactored VM manager for increased speed and better reliability, among a number of other fixes and enhancements. [more…]
Space
Rockets and Rovers: Getting to the Moon and getting around on its surface
Getting the Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon was going to take power – a lot of power. And to build a rocket of such magnitude was going to take a great deal [more…]
Computers
Gadget Graveyard: The IBM System/360
In the early days of computing, all computers were in effect personal computers – only one person could use them at a time! In the beginning, it was like using a calculator: you entered in [more…]