Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a slice of history that will make any retro-tech fan grin: before TikTok and iMovie, there was a beast called the Videonics DirectED Plus. This early attempt at democratizing …read more Continue reading Videonics: The Dawn of Home Video Editing, Revisited
Over the decades the video and music industries have tried a wide range of ways to get consumers to buy ‘cheaper’ versions of albums and music, but then limit the …read more Continue reading 2View: The Self-Erasing VHS Tape With Paperclip Hack
Tape robots are typically used in places that store vast amounts of data – think film studios and government archives. If you’ve seen the 1995 cult movie Hackers, you might …read more Continue reading VHS Robot Swaps Tapes, as Seen in Hackers
Archiving data from old storage media can be a highly complex process. It can be as simple as putting a disk in an old drive and reading out the contents. …read more Continue reading VHS-Decode Project Could Help Archival Efforts
It was just this year that Sega left the arcade business for good. A company synonymous with coin-op games for over a half century completely walked away from selling experiences …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Raw Video From Inside a 1980s Arcade
If you have a pile of old VHS tapes collecting dust in your attic or basement that you know you’ll never watch again, either because all of those movies are available on DVD or a streaming service, or because you haven’t had a working VCR since 2003, there might be …read more
[Dan Mace] decided to try vlogging 1980s style. To do this, he built Pram Cam — a one-man mobile video recording setup using vintage gear. [Dan] is a YouTuber from Cape Town, South Africa. His goal for this project was to motivate people to get out there and make videos. Smartphones, action cams, and modern video equipment all have made it incredibly easy to create content.
[Dan] reminds us of this by grabbing a vintage 1984 video camera – a Grundig vs150 VHS recorder. He couples the camera with a sturdy video tripod, blimp microphone, CRT TV as a monitor, …read more
Some of the tapes contain never-before-seen footage for US gamers. Continue reading This Guy Is Digitizing the VHS History of Video Games
Still got a Zip drive? What about a CD? Are you sure you’ll be able to access the data stored on those? We take a look at what’s being done to keep information safe for future generations Continue reading From floppy disks to deep freeze: what’s the best way to store data?
For more than 20 years, John Scherer’s Video Professor offered instructional videos and discs to make computers accessible to novices. Where did it go? Continue reading The Rise and Fall of the $100 Million Company That Taught America to Compute