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Nothing quite says vintage computer like a dedicated glass terminal. We enjoyed [Adam’s] restoration of an Acorn CRT monitor. The monitor is old enough to have that vintage vibe, but …read more Continue reading A CRT Monitor Restoration
Public gatherings of local officials have always been battlegrounds, but now those fights play out online for millions of viewers. Continue reading School Boards Are the Front Line in America’s Culture War
For as big, bulky, and power-hungry as they were, CRTs were an analog joy of the early days of TV, video games, and computers. The crackling high-voltage, the occasional whiff …read more Continue reading Fit Your LCDs with Lenses for That Vintage CRT Look
For as big, bulky, and power-hungry as they were, CRTs were an analog joy of the early days of TV, video games, and computers. The crackling high-voltage, the occasional whiff …read more Continue reading Fit Your LCDs with Lenses for That Vintage CRT Look
Old CRT computer enthusiast [x86VileR] recently tracked down an IBM 5153 monitor for which he had been searching several years. Unfortunately shipping a heavy glass CRT isn’t easy. In fact, …read more Continue reading Shipping a CRT: Lessons Learned
If you own an Apple product you probably live in a world with a few proprietary interfaces, but by and large your displays and desktop peripherals will use familiar ports …read more Continue reading A Modern Mac Using An Ancient Mac Display
We’re accustomed to seeing giant LED-powered screens in sports venues and outdoor displays. What would it take to bring this same technology into your living room? Very, very tiny LEDs. …read more Continue reading MicroLEDs: Lighting The Way To A Solid OLED Competitor
A few years back, the Andy Warhol Museum ran into an unusual problem. They wanted to display digital pieces the pop artist created on his Amiga 1000 back in the 1980s, but putting the vintage computers on the floor and …read more
Continue reading Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
From the perspective of a later decade it’s sometimes quaint and amusing to look back at the technological objects of desire from times past. In the 1980s for example a handheld television was the pinnacle of achievement, in a decade …read more
Continue reading The Sony ScopeMan, Possibly The Best Product They Never Made
Over the years we’ve seen quite a few projects involving vector graphics, but the spaceship game created by [Mark Aren] especially caught our eye because in it he has tackled building a vector display from scratch rather than simply using a ready-made one such as an oscilloscope. As if the …read more
Continue reading Building A Vector Graphics Machine From Scratch Including The CRT