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The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close …read more Continue reading A Mainframe Computer for the Modern Age
Fifty-three years ago, Lotus founder Colin Chapman set out to discover how Lotus design principles could be applied to a Can-Am Series race car. The long-time-coming result is a V8 known as the Type 66 – and only 10 of them are being built.Continue Rea… Continue reading Limited-run Type 66 is the 1970s Can-Am race car Lotus never made
Not everybody wants the gaudy, RGB LED-backlit look of modern keyboards – some prefer the muted tones of ‘80s technology. Accessory company 8BitDo has the nostalgia covered with a pair of retro-styled mechanical keyboards inspired by Nintendo’s first g… Continue reading Retro Nintendo-themed keyboards include huge programmable Super Buttons
Having finally accepted that I’m destined for singer/songwriter territory rather than shredville, I’ve been feeling a little Gretsch-curious lately. So I decided to spend some time with the Rolls-Royce of the range and something more affordable.Continu… Continue reading Review: One cheap Gretsch guitar and one really fancy one
To mark what would have been the 100th birthday of the Father of Loud, Marshall has introduced the Studio JTM series, an amp head with matching speaker cabinets plus a combo amp – all looking like they might have stepped straight out of 1960s.Continue … Continue reading Marshall pays tribute to its founder with beautiful retro amps and cabs
Fewer and fewer people have cable TV subscriptions these days, due to a combination of poor business practices by cable companies and the availability of alternatives to cable such as …read more Continue reading Recreating The Golden Era of Cable TV
[Julio] has an older computer sitting on a desk, and recorded a quick video with it showing how fast this computer can do seemingly simple things, like open default Windows …read more Continue reading Computer Speed Gains Erased By Modern Software
During the time in the 1980s when the personal computer was gaining steam as a household fixture, plenty of models shipped with the keyboard built in to the machine itself. …read more Continue reading Retro-Inspired Computer Case Hosts Mechanical Keyboard
Although electric typewriters have been made almost entirely obsolete, there’s still something to be said for the satisfying “clickety-clack” of their keys. Well, that sound and feel is back, in the all-aluminum Fineday 3.0 Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboar… Continue reading Retro-cool Fineday 3.0 Bluetooth keyboard brings back the clickety-clack
It might seem quaint through the lends of history we have the luxury of looking through, but in the mid 1980s it was a major symbol of status to be …read more Continue reading A Mobile Phone from 1985