History
Spacewar! update…
Of course, while researching you always come across material you wish you had the issue before! In this case, it’s an article by one of the inventors of Spacewar! J.M. Graetz. It can be found [more…]
History
Departments
Miniaturised Radios and Magnetic Tape
Reprinted from Paleotronic issue 1, volume 1 Feb-Mar 2018. Lee De Forest’s 1907 Audion vacuum tube is widely credited with kickstarting the modern electronics industry in general, but it would take the much smaller, lower-power [more…]
Features
The Magic of C.E.S.
The soothing sonata of chatter in the convention hall swelled to a crescendo of voices as people piled into the Paleotronic booth ahead of the 1983 Consumer Electronic Show’s umpteenth product announcement of the day [more…]