Our fourth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas includes the Coleco Adam, Tandy Model 100, the Sound Burger and much more… Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version
Our third instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas includes ET: The Extra Terrible, the Colecovision, Spectrum, Commodore 64 and much, much more… Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version [more…]
Our second instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas includes the ZX81, TI99/4A. BBC Micro and more… Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version
Over the next 23 days we’re going on a journey through 12 years of Christmas tech-gifts past. Our first year is 1980, when first generation consoles and home computers began to gain serious traction. Click [more…]
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…]
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…]
While the advertising model adopted by free-to-air television more than covered station-owners costs, media companies have always searched for solutions aimed at getting viewers to pay for programming directly. Telemeter was one such solution. An [more…]
During the Second World War, American women were recruited to fill factory roles previously occupied by men who had gone off to fight in Europe and in the Pacific. While many of these roles involved [more…]
Telephone Television The “Space Phone” built into some Zenith System 3 TVs from the 1970s to the 1990s unfortunately didn’t let you call space, but it did let grandma call her grandkids without having to [more…]
One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more…]
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