Collaborate Disseminate
In any era, the story of electronics has very much been about figuring out how to make something happen with what’s available at the time. And as is often the …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Forgotten Vacuum Tube A/D Converters of 1965
Watching television today is a very different experience from that which our parents would have had at our age, where we have high-definition digital on-demand streaming services they had a …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: How Television Worked In The 1950s
With the huge popularity of retrocomputing and of cyberdecks, we have seen a variety of projects that use a modern computer such as a Raspberry Pi bathed in the glorious …read more Continue reading Designing For The Small Grey Screen
84 years ago, a teenager built a TV set in a basement in Hammond, Indiana. The teen was a radio amateur, [John Anderson W9YEI], and since it was the late …read more Continue reading Can You Help Solve the Mystery of This 1930s TV?
By our very nature, hackers tend to get on the bandwagon of new technology pretty quickly. When something gee-whiz comes along, it’s folks like us who try it out, even …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: A DIY Television for Very Early Adopters
Remember the “suitcase” form-factor for PCs? In the time before latops, these luggable machines were just the thing for the on-the-go executive. OK, maybe not really — but the ability …read more Continue reading Old Portable TV Becomes Unique CRT Cyberdeck
Whether it’s an engine swap in an old car or pulling a hard drive out of an old computer, we often find ourselves transplanting bits from one piece of hardware …read more Continue reading Pulling Off A CRT Transplant Doesn’t Have To Be Tricky!
For those of us who grew up before the Internet, the center of pretty much every house was the TV. It was the shrine before which we all worshipped, gathering …read more Continue reading Tiny TV Celebrates the Forgotten Tech of CRTs
As consumer electronics companies chase profits on tighter and tighter margins, it seems like quality is continually harder to find for most average consumer-grade products. Luckily, we don’t have to …read more Continue reading Modern Features In Classic Radio
A pocket-sized TV is not a big deal today. But in 1983, cramming a CRT into your pocket was quite a feat. Clive Sinclair’s TV80 or FTV1 did it with …read more Continue reading Sinclair Pocket TV Teardown