Who’s Afraid Of A CRT?
Older consumer electronic devices follow a desirability curve in which after they fall from favour they can’t be given away. But as they become rarer, they reach a point at …read more Continue reading Who’s Afraid Of A CRT?
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Get Today’s Forecast in Classic 90s Weather Channel Style
Remember when The Weather Channel actually had weather? It’s been a while, but we sure remember what a boon Local on the 8’s was when getting ready for the day. …read more Continue reading Get Today’s Forecast in Classic 90s Weather Channel Style
Video Killed the Radio Alarm Clock
For decades now, MTV has been on a bizarre trajectory given its original name was an acronym for Music Television. In the original days in the 80s and 90s it …read more Continue reading Video Killed the Radio Alarm Clock
A Vintage Monitor Lives Again with a New Heart
Aside from keeping decades-old consumer-grade computing hardware working, a major problem for many retrocomputing enthusiasts lies in doing the same for vintage monitors. Whether your screen is a domestic TV …read more Continue reading A Vintage Monitor Lives Again with a New Heart
This Baby ‘Scope Is Within Your Reach
The modern oscilloscope is truly a marvelous instrument, being a computer with a high-speed analogue front end which can deliver the function of an oscilloscope alongside that of a voltmeter …read more Continue reading This Baby ‘Scope Is Within Your Reach
Bringing Back the CRT TV Experience in Software
Cathode-Retro is a collection of shaders and sample C++ code for reliving the glorious days when graphics were composite video signals displayed on a CRT screen. How? By faking it …read more Continue reading Bringing Back the CRT TV Experience in Software
Tetris on an Oscilloscope, the Software Way
When we talk about video games on an oscilloscope, you’d be pardoned for assuming the project involved an analog CRT scope in X-Y mode, with vector graphics for something like …read more Continue reading Tetris on an Oscilloscope, the Software Way
Dark Trace CRTs, Almost The E-Ink Of Their Time
When you’ve been a fact-sponge for electronics trivia for over four decades, it’s not often that an entire class of parts escapes your attention. But have you seen the Skiatron? …read more Continue reading Dark Trace CRTs, Almost The E-Ink Of Their Time
Spinning CRT Makes a 360 Degree Audio Oscilloscope
A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like? We’re not sure ourselves, but it seems like something similar to …read more Continue reading Spinning CRT Makes a 360 Degree Audio Oscilloscope
This CRT Luggable Makes Sense
There was a time when portable computing meant not a svelte laptop but a suitcase-sized machine that was really a slimmed-down desktop with a small CRT incorporated int he same …read more Continue reading This CRT Luggable Makes Sense