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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again!

December 14, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

Computer Art

Videotex: An Early Experiment in Art Delivered Digitally

June 2, 2020 paleotronic 0

So, we’ve seen that digital creativity in the 1980s had a few avenues that could be explored: Logo let you draw to the screen programatically with the turtle, you could paint on the CRT with [more…]

Telecommunications

Interview with a Sysop: The Lower Planes BBS

January 9, 2020 paleotronic 0

Sysop of The Lower Planes BBS Anthony Adverse answers a few of our questions about the Australian BBS Scene… Thanks for taking the time to chat with us! Firstly, we assume you were a BBS [more…]

Tandy

From Pocket Computers to Palmtops: An Early History of Mobile Telecomputing

September 28, 2019 paleotronic 0

What could be better than connecting to another computer remotely? How about remotely connecting remotely? While these days we take the ‘always connected’ nature of our mobile phones for granted, back in the early 1980s [more…]

Apple II

Diversi-Dial: An Apple II Party Line

September 28, 2019 paleotronic 0

While using an on-line service like CompuServe allowed you to chat with people all around the world, its per-hour charge was not that attractive to perpetually-broke teenagers. Also, you couldn’t really go ‘hang out’ with [more…]

Computers

Pay By The Minute: The CompuServe Era

September 24, 2019 paleotronic 0

So, what if we made a really big Bulletin Board System, one that could be dialed-in to from any city, and where thousands of people could interact, rather than just a few?   These days [more…]

Computers

BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989

September 4, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

Apple II

A microM8 update and a glimpse into the future of Paleotronic

May 27, 2019 paleotronic 0

The latest update to microM8 adds a few new features and fixes a few outstanding bugs. Platoterm support Mockingboard enhancement Original Apple II and 13-sector disk support Compatibility improvements Taking microM8 (and Paleotronic) into the [more…]

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Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977)

January 30, 2019 paleotronic 0

While researching for our magazine we sometimes find nuggets buried by time that have been forgotten by the Internet. This particular nugget was found in the May 1977 issue of Creative Computing. Science fiction author [more…]

History

The Mystery of the Missing Moon Tapes

January 29, 2019 paleotronic 0

A desire to have the moon walk broadcast during prime-time US viewing hours, after the moon set there,  meant that NASA would have to rely on a dish in a sheep paddock in Australia to [more…]

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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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Department Store BASIC: Learning to code via programmatic vandalism in the 1980s

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Before MS-DOS, Microsoft’s biggest product was arguably BASIC. Variants of Microsoft BASIC shipped in most 1980s home computers, including the Commodore 64, Tandy Color Computer and the Apple II (as Applesoft BASIC). Standing for “Beginners [more…]

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