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CRT Trouble? Danger Will Robinson!

November 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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Doctor Where? The Missing Episodes of Early Television Programs

November 4, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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The Adventures of Captain Midnight: An Early History of Pay TV Scrambling

October 28, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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Women in Tech: Rosie the Riveter becomes Tracy the TV Assembler

October 21, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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We See Facts: The BBC’s Ceefax Teletext Service

October 9, 2018 paleotronic 0

In the 1960s, the BBC experimented with the idea of broadcasting a newspaper to hard-copy printers in homes during the early hours of the morning. It worked by rasterising (converting into lines) text, sending it [more…]

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The Crystal Ball: CRT ‘Innovation’ Flops

September 23, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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Our Holiday issue explored The Print Shop, Christmas and Party games and much, much more!

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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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Christmas themed video games have always been a category of computer and console video gaming that has bewildered me. Often they have been very poor adaptations of a holiday season meant to bring about fond [more…]

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