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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
GREAT News For Fans of Classic Home Video Games Of The '80s!
Miss your Atari 2600 or 7800? Your Colecovision, Odyessy or Astrocade?
Guess what? Internet Archive now has hundreds of playable ROMs on their web site. Note: There currently is no sound for them. But IA is going to add it soon.
You can find them here.
Labels:
1980s,
Games,
Obscure tech,
TV,
Video Games
Monday, December 30, 2013
The Phonograph Repeater
Watch a video of this thing here.
From the early 1900s, these were the very first automatic repeat gadgets for records. The needle would reach the end of a record (give or take a few seconds), then the needle would catch on the repeater and rotate it to the beginning of the record (again, give or take a few seconds)
The Geer Repeater
More here.
From the early 1900s, these were the very first automatic repeat gadgets for records. The needle would reach the end of a record (give or take a few seconds), then the needle would catch on the repeater and rotate it to the beginning of the record (again, give or take a few seconds)
The Geer Repeater
More here.
Labels:
1900s,
1910s,
1920s,
Music,
Obscure tech,
Phonograph,
Records
Sunday, December 29, 2013
The Star Wars Question & Answer Book About Computers (1983)
Labels:
1980s,
Books,
Childrens,
Computers,
Movie,
Obscure tech,
Space,
Strange Products
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