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Thanks to the newly released Amazon Prime series, not to mention nearly 30 years as a wildly successful gaming franchise, Fallout is very much in the zeitgeist these days. But …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Other Kind of Fallout Show
Thanks to the newly released Amazon Prime series, not to mention nearly 30 years as a wildly successful gaming franchise, Fallout is very much in the zeitgeist these days. But …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Other Kind of Fallout Show
Recently the [Periscope Film] channel on YouTube published a 1960 color documentary featuring the 1958 launch of the Atlas B (SM-65B) ICBM, in its second, Missile 4B iteration. This was …read more Continue reading Testing The Atlas ICBM: A 1958 Time Capsule Video
Donald Reid had a passion for applying himself to challenging problems, and in many ways his life’s work was that of developing a prototype submersible aircraft — or flying submarine …read more Continue reading Flying Submarine Documentary is a Story of Defied Assumptions
In today’s world, it is hard to realize how frightened Americans were at the news of Sputnik orbiting the Earth. Part of it was a fear of what a rival …read more Continue reading Scorched Moon: Secret Project A119
Mark it on your calendars, folks — this is the week that the term RUD has entered the public lexicon. Sure, most of our community already knows the acronym for …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 23, 2023
The TA-1042 is the most badass looking telephone you’ll ever see. It’s a digital military telephone from the 1980s, but sadly non-functional unless it’s hooked up to the military phone …read more Continue reading Cold War Military Telephones Now Usable Thanks To DIY Switch Build
With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But at HF, it is more common to use an array …read more Continue reading Cold War Listening Post Antennas
One of the global news stories this week has been the passing of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Since she had recently celebrated 70 years on the throne, the …read more Continue reading London Bridge Has Fallen — By Radio
A British tech entrepreneur posted on Reddit looking for help getting a Cold War era nuclear early warning radar dish to spin again. Continue reading A Tech Millionaire Bought a Giant Cold War Radar to ‘Find UFOs’