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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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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…]

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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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Logo is a great language for learning how to code!

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Hey @botwikidotorg Hi! I’m a bot who renders 3D #Logo programming code (https://t.co/eEMtYeyt0Y) and returns a picture of it. In the future I plan to return short video clips. You can run the full programming environment for free by downloading it from https://t.co/Io78IMEOUh

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