Category: Retro Computing History
The ‘Amp Hours Electronics Podcast’ has published an interview with Chuck Peddle, an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor; the KIM-1 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. To listen to the intervew, and read a nice summary about it, follow the link below….
Stories of Apple website has published an interesting article telling the story of Mr. Macintosh, a stylized little man with an overcoat and hat that was etched on some early Macintosh motherboards and also appeared on some rare merchandising items. The idea was eventually abandoned but Mr. Macintosh lived on, at least for a while, both in hardware and in…
And you thought you’ve seen everything, eh? Usually not even considered collectable unless it’s storing a precious content inside, the media, cumbersome and space-eater, is always relegated to the least desirable vintage item to have in your collection. Well, now they have a retirement home to rely on! We’ve just learned about the Museum Of Obsolete Media, a place where…
The Micro BitA major BBC project, developed in pioneering partnership with over 25 organisations, will give a personal coding device free to every child in year 7 across the country – 1 million devices in total. Still in development and nicknamed the Micro Bit, it aims to give children an exciting and engaging introduction to coding, help them realise their…
This year we have the most Pi day of all Pi days you can get in a life time (unless you gonna be around 3.14.2115!). Retrocomputaria, the Brazilian retro computer podcast and blog made us remember the that ENIAC was the first computer that calculates the PI number back in 1949. At that time, John von Neumann and his crew…
