Happy Election Eve! Over the past few years, Australian Apple II aficionado Jeremy Barr-Hyde has managed to diligently bring a number of Australian Apple II software titles back from the dead, including such downunder classics as ‘The [more…]
Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [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…]
After Sydney-native Peter Vogel graduated from high school in 1975, his classmate Kim Ryrie approached him with the idea of a creating a computer microprocessor-driven electronic musical synthesiser. Ryrie was frustrated with his attempts at [more…]
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