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The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…

February 20, 2019 paleotronic Comments Off on The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…

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…]

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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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The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years

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One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more…]

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turtleSpaces 3D Logo Interpreter

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The Lunar Code: Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer

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  The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a fascinating design for its time, and demonstrated many concepts that would take hold be used for many years to come. The 512Khz master signal (derived from a [more…]

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Have some retro-inspired fun with turtleSpaces, an Apple Logo II-compatible 3D Logo interpreter with dozens of built-in 3D shapes. You can export 3D models and high-resolution renders of your creations! https://t.co/yaduelFVUT

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Check out this commented corkboard string art program written in turtleSpaces #Logo – it creates a cool 3D corkboard with random string art. Kids can create some real cork board string art as a tie-in!

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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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