History's Dumpster: Obscure tech

History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk and oddities of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...

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Saturday, March 11, 2023

The Jupiter Ace Computer

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The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair...

Saturday, January 08, 2022

The Garfield Telephone

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1986 ad for the Tyco Garfield Telephone The 1986 Tyco Garfield telephone perhaps would have been another '80s pop culture relic were i...

Friday, November 29, 2019

The Last 78 RPM Records

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"Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs What was the last 78 RPM record? I've been asked this ques...

Friday, October 25, 2019

Dumpster Diving in The Internet Archive

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If you love random free, old, fun and useful stuff. But can't find anything useful on the curb outside and you're tired o...

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Friday, October 11, 2019

Hospital Radio

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Image: Sheffield Hospital Radio It was an American idea that became a British institution that is almost completely unheard of i...

Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Portable And Car Audio Demonstration Cassettes

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In the early days of portable cassette machines, late 1960s and early 1970s cassette decks often came with demonstration tapes. These we...

Sunday, September 01, 2019

Electric Banana Phonograph

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