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Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Camputers Lynx (1983)

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Introduced March 1983 The Camputers Lynx was a British home computer released in March 1983, slotting into the category of 1980s microcompu...
Thursday, 23 March 2023

Xerox Alto (1973)

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Released March 1973 The early days of personal computing including a lot of false starts. Ideas that should have propelled their progenitors...
Tuesday, 21 March 2023

IBM PC/XT vs Compaq Portable (1983)

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Introduced March 1983 The launch of the original IBM PC in 1981 cause a fundamental shift in the desktop computing market. Out of the appare...
Sunday, 29 January 2023

Oric-1 (1983)

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Introduced January 1983 If you were in the market for a home computer in Britain in 1983, there would typically be three models that most pe...
Saturday, 28 January 2023

Apple Lisa (1983)

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Launched January 1983 In 1983 the Apple Computer Company was just seven years old, but had grown very rapidly on the back of strong sales of...
Sunday, 1 January 2023

2022 – things that didn’t quite make the cut

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We covered quite a bit of retro tech this year, but there are a few things we didn’t talk about that are still worth a mention. Let’s start ...
Friday, 30 December 2022

Chocolate, Cheese, Ice-Cream and Fizzy Drink. Oh my.

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This year sees the anniversary of several well-known food brands, and a few lesser-known ones. It turns out that some have been around for l...
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