What you’re seeing is not a hallucination. It is neither the result of partial head trauma, nor an accidental intrusion from an alternate dimension. It’s a...
general history
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Polaroid Instant Video Games
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[ Retro Scan of the Week ] Censored by Electronic Games Magazine
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Click above to see the full ad. Close your eyes! The above picture is too hot for young minds to take. Or so thought Electronic Games in 1983 when they elected to...
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MS-DOS Saves Columbia Shuttle Data
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Vintage computing shows up in some of the unlikeliest places. And in this case, it saved the day. According to a recent Associated Press article, a 340 megabyte Seagate...
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The 2008 Hamfest Report
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A couple weekends ago, I made the requisite annual trek to RARSfest, my local hamfest of choice, which takes place on the NC State Fairgrounds. You might remember my...
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[ Retro Scan of the Week ] Online Dating, Circa 1985
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They put that blue streak there for a reason. It may seem like online dating is a new thing, but it stretches back farther than you’d think. Case in point:...
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[ Fuzzy Memory ] Tutankhamen Rises Again
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We’re back. Last week’s Fuzzy Memory mysery was such an astounding success that we’ve received another request from someone seeking resolution of their...
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Celebrity Computer Endorsements
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Hot off the virtual PC World presses comes my latest volley of vintage nostalgia. This time I covered celebrity computer endorsements. William Shatner, Alan Alda, Bill...
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[ Retro Scan of the Week ] Too Little, Too Late?
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TTI took three of these and never woke up. [ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, November 1992 ] Discussion topic of the week: Pretend it’s 1991 and...