Tag: History

Of all the coin-op classics to grace the arcades in the late 1980s, there is one in particular that I remember more fondly than any other. Upon entering any arcade, I would always make a point of searching for existence for this particular game. Much like a celestial body caught in the body of a planet’s gravitational field, the lure of…

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-final-years-book Brian Bagnall recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to secure funding for his new book, Commodore: The Final Years. This will be the third and final book in Bagnall’s Commodore trilogy (previous titles include Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years), charting the computer giant’s golden years from 1987, starting with the launch of the Amiga…

In the third in a series articles, I hope you’ll join me on this trip down memory lane as I look back at the Commodore Amiga, a truly revolutionary computer in every sense of the word. Of all the computers and video game systems that I’ve owned over the years, it is undoubtedly the Amiga that I consider my favourite,…

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…