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…]
Realising that an entity of pure logic might pose a threat to humanity, science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned the above three laws for robots… they seem sensible enough, but what if, when the time [more…]
Before one could land on the Moon, one needed to learn more about it. What was the surface made of? What was the terrain like? Where would we land? The Ranger missions hoped to assist [more…]
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…]
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…]
The impact the live broadcast of the Moon walk had on the populace of Western countries cannot be overstated. Witnessing such a momentous event live made people feel they were a part of it, and [more…]
Vera did as he had done for so many Tuesday nights before: she made her cup of tea, got her little biscuits from the tin above the sink, and headed for her living room, sitting [more…]
In the 1960s, television was something that was a passive occupation, you turn it on an it entertained you. The possibility that you might be able to create or manage what you saw on the [more…]
The ability to broadcast moving images over-the-air was a miracle, but the question then became: “Who was going to pay for it?” In the United Kingdom, the answer was the television set owners. Since 1904 [more…]
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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