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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the ZX Spectrum 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the ZX Spectrum

by Alex Kidman  |  23 Apr 2012  |  Comment now
Yet another classic system turns 30 this week - the ZX Spectrum. So what was so special about Clive Sinclair's first colour computer, with its rubber keyboards and garish colour systems?
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Apple II 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Apple II

by Alex Kidman  |  17 Apr 2012  |  Comment now
We're feeling a bit older with news this week that the Apple II is turning 35. So what was so special about it?
Telstra offers reward to tech-savvy seniors 
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Telstra offers reward to tech-savvy seniors

by Chris Jager  |  12 May 2011  |  Comment now
Telstra is searching for Australia’s most tech-savvy senior, with the winner set to walk away with $10,000 in cash.
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Atari 400 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Atari 400

by Alex Kidman  |  29 Jul 2010  |  Comment now
The Atari 400 signifies what could have been for Atari, a stepping stone into the emerging home computer market during as golden era of gaming
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the VIC-20 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the VIC-20

by Alex Kidman  |  22 Jul 2010  |  Comment now
Before Commodore wowed the world with the C64, it sold a million VIC-20 computers. We look back at Commodore's first "affordable" computer
Vintage Tech: Looking back at MiniDisc 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at MiniDisc

by Alex Kidman  |  1 Jul 2010  |  Comment now
More durable than a cassette or CD, Sony's audio format never really took off in the way the company would have liked. We look back at MiniDisc.
Vintage Tech: Looking back at Karateka 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at Karateka

by Alex Kidman  |  29 Jun 2010  |  Comment now
Karateka offered up smooth animation and simple yet evocative storytelling years before anyone though it possible. We look back at this classic game.
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Palm Pilot 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Palm Pilot

by Alex Kidman  |  17 Jun 2010  |  Comment now
The Palm Pilot pretty much defined the PDA and set the scene for the smartphones we use today. So what happened?
Vintage Tech: Looking back at Elite 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at Elite

by Alex Kidman  |  10 Jun 2010  |  Comment now
Some games are good. Very few are great. Even fewer are fantastic. But only one game is undeniably Elite
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Amstrad CPC 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Amstrad CPC

by Alex Kidman  |  3 Jun 2010  |  Comment now
Did you own an Amstrad computer? While never as widespread as Commodore's insanely successful C64, the CPC range had its share of enthusiasts. Here's why
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Pac-Man phenomenon 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Pac-Man phenomenon

by Alex Kidman  |  27 May 2010  |  Comment now
No matter what kind of computer you had in the 1980s, we can pretty much guarantee that there was a Pac-Man clone for it. We look back at the Pac-Man phenomenon
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the AIBO 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the AIBO

by Alex Kidman  |  20 May 2010  |  Comment now
The future, we're still being told, is robotic. So what happened to Sony's stab at a robot hound, the AIBO?
Vintage Tech: Looking back at Microsoft Bob 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at Microsoft Bob

by Alex Kidman  |  14 May 2010  |  Comment now
Managed by Bill Gates' wife, intended to make Windows simple enough for anybody. So why aren't we all Bobbing along now?
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Atari Lynx 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Atari Lynx

by Alex Kidman  |  6 May 2010  |  Comment now
Atari's place in gaming history is pretty much assured thanks to Pong, the Atari 2600 and to a lesser extent, the Atari 2600 version of E.T. But the 2600 wasn't the only product Atari ever developed
Vintage Tech: Ye olde 3.5" floppy disks now surprisingly expensive 
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Vintage Tech: Ye olde 3.5" floppy disks now surprisingly expensive

by Alex Kidman  |  30 Apr 2010  |  Comment now
We might laugh about 1.44MB floppy disks, but they were the storage medium champ of their time. And nowadays they're not exactly cheap.
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Nintendo Entertainment System 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Nintendo Entertainment System

by Alex Kidman  |  28 Apr 2010  |  Comment now
Astonishingly, back in the 1980s when the games market was a fraction of its current size, Nintendo shifted 61 million of its ugly little grey box. So what was so special about the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)?
Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Apple Pippin 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at the Apple Pippin

by Alex Kidman  |  15 Apr 2010  |  Comment now
Think the iPad's the first cut-down computer Apple's ever designed? Think again. We look back at the fascinating skeleton in the Apple closet that is the Pippin.
Vintage Tech: Looking back at Mosaic 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at Mosaic

by Alex Kidman  |  8 Apr 2010  |  Comment now
The DNA of Mosaic runs through pretty much any modern Internet browser. So what did it look like, and why was it so special?
Vintage Tech: Looking back at Windows 1.0 
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Vintage Tech: Looking back at Windows 1.0

by Alex Kidman  |  1 Apr 2010  |  Comment now
The year was 1985, and the chances are that back then, if you thought about graphical user environments, you were most likely thinking either of Mac OS or Amiga Workbench
Vintage Tech: this is what portable storage looked like at the turn of the century 
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Vintage Tech: this is what portable storage looked like at the turn of the century

by Alex Kidman  |  25 Mar 2010  |  Comment now
How many USB Flash drives do you own? Chances are it's far too many. But back in the year 2000 they stored a ridiculously puny 8MB and required - shudder - drivers on a separate floppy disk
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