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My other profile is ShaunTremayne Trained Telecoms & Mechatronics engineer repairing fruit machines, printers, arcade machines, home and business computers in 80's to industrial systems for 40years+
Who remembers learning to use a computer with this or knows someone who did?
Win95 Question regarding USB. I was a subcontractor for a hardware company with internal links to test Microsoft products. Question anybody else have the USB launch pack from Intel & possibly Epson / HP in 95 for Win95? I know it was covered by NDA but interested, even a DM
MBus ESP32 Adapter – First MBus test With my Revision F boards all soldered up and debugged, I was ready to make my first MBus communication attempt! In this post, I'll run through the process. Issues with Revision F Before diving into the test, I thought it might be helpful if I gave a quick…
MBus ESP32 Adapter – First MBus test
With my Revision F boards all soldered up and debugged, I was ready to make my first MBus communication attempt! In this post, I'll run through the process. Issues with Revision F Before diving into the test, I thought it might be helpful if I gave a quick through some of the mistakes I made soldering up my Revision F board.
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Currently driving to Norfolk from Cornwall & on checking roads conditions they report a "technological upgrade" 👷ROAD WORKS!👷
Wow, another BBC Micro portable/luggable has popped up on ebay. There was another one sold a good few months back. Very rare item - not too sure how many were actually made. You need strong arms for this one!
When was the first time you used a touch screen computer device & what was it? Myself 1983 while on work experience from school. youtu.be/PNWrgZOwNq8?...
1982: BEHOLD the TOUCHSCREEN | Tomorrow’s World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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UK inventions like LCD including a version with persistence like e-Ink which the UK fails to market(Even ARM took a while)! youtu.be/fM7BpmJlRIs?...
1986: The Search for a Superior Screen | Micro Live | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Is the crime situation getting worse in the uk a bag of knives being delivered through our door in 2020 & mystery white powder with scales found in our rubbish bin in 2024!
What does Arthur Dent, Dr Who & James Bond have in common? Bonus point if you can list TWO!
My programming career started here...This is my A level Computer Studies workbook from 1983. My first commercial game was published in summer 1983 - Atomic Protector for the BBC Micro. Huge thanks to my amazing CS teacher, Pete Davidson. I owe him a pint or two.
Two-player ELITE for the BBC Micro is looking so cool. Great work, Mark!
Mark Moxon@markmoxon.bsky.social · 2mo agoTwo-player #BBCMicro Elite will be a deep-space dogfight game The rest of Elite wouldn’t be that exciting with two players, so I’m sticking to the core combat experience When you fire it up, you can choose what kind of contest you want Here's the all-new config screen 🚀 Game on! #retrocomputing
In 1985 it was not processor cores that counted but two Motorola 68000 CPUs alongside ten Motorola 6809 microprocessors being very Iconic in its day to lose out to the Atari ST with a single 68000 (plus a bit of extra hardware).
Young engineers & mining technicians of the future battle it out using methods of over 200 years old. I remember last year teaching students to use hand tools from Countries like #Australia youtu.be/1RpigchnzSg?...
2026 Cornwall Schools Mining Games
YouTube video by King Edward Mine Museum
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Solar light explosion! So much to choose from the multiple rows!
I just found this article I wrote in Computing with the Amstrad ( December 1985 ). I'd forgotten about it so it was a really nice surprise to find it after 40 years! It's a techincal article about programming the Amstrad CPC's 6845 CRTC ( video controller ). The BBC Micro has exactly the same CRTC.
From a techincal viewpoint this has to be my favourite retro game console. The Vectrex was released by Milton Bradley (MB) in late 1982. It uses a Motorola 68A09 clocked at 1.5 MHz, has 1KB of RAM and 8KB ROM. Games are stored on 32 KB ROM cartridges. It uses a vector based mono CRT.
I remembering having Tin Can Alley back in the '70s. I worked out a hack for the gun that allowed you to trigger the cans really easily. Underneath the rifle's forend is a rocker switch that, when pressed and held, keeps the light beam on constantly allowing you to quickly trigger the light sensor.
holy shit. we need to spend the entire economy on this. please give me 80 trillion dollars so i can replace vermont with a data center
Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.
Loving this C64 easter Egg that someone at TT Games put into the new LEGO Batman game. I'm not sure who it was that did it, but I need to find out from some of my former colleagues! If you know please do tell!
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo agoHere's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
Oh yes - just remembered I had one of these too, great fun with a spring loaded missile on the nose if I remember correctly.
who had one of these to play with? Did you have any of the extras as it had set of dry contacts plus an input function as well.
Were you lucky enough to have this toy in the 1970s? The Eagle Transporter from the TV series SPACE 1999.
The educational room at the Northwest Computer Museum. Filled with BBC Micros, plus PCs running DOOM! This reminds me of school so much. The TV series Micro Live is playing in the background with Chris and Mac are discussing Laser Disc technology. The Computer Literacy Project was so important.
When Trump calls other world leaders and agrees ceasefires, is he using this phone?
