Retro Tech Show

Ha ha. We would have been in Sweden at the same time, even in 82 🤩🙌 Thanks for your comment 👊

[1986] Beyond the negative: demystifying the golden era of chrome slide film and slides Lifting the lid on slide photography.

[1986] Beyond the negative: demystifying the golden era of chrome slide film and slides

Lifting the lid on slide photography.

#photography #analog #slides #slidefilm #nostalgia #camera

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”£27 of your pounds will disappear offshore and go untaxed to our children. Thank you for your support.”

It’s EXTRAORDINARY, James 😅

[1986] Across the USSR with just a Walkman and a pair of mini speakers My 7-day train journey on the ‘Trans-Siberian Railway’ as a 13-year-old.

[1986] Across the USSR with just a Walkman and a pair of mini speakers

My 7-day train journey on the ‘Trans-Siberian Railway’ as a 13-year-old.

#travel #history #memoir #russia #coldwar #tech #1980s

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[1986] By the book: Turning the tables on a mysterious 8-bit game from 1986 The game on the Commodore 64 caught my eye.

[1986] By the book: Turning the tables on a mysterious 8-bit game from 1986

The game on the Commodore 64 caught my eye.

#retrogaming #gaming #author #indieauthor #8bit

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So … everyone who smashed their way into the Capitol Building? 🤔

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Did you ever own a Discman?

[1986] Skip, pause, rewind: How the Discman conquered the world But Sony’s early portable CD players had dirty little secrets.

[1986] Skip, pause, rewind: How the Discman conquered the world

But Sony’s early portable CD players had dirty little secrets.

#tech #history #sony #cd #music #spotify #retro #physicalmedia #nostalgia

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I see what you did there 👏👏

[1986] The fax of life: how did we send paper documents through the phone line? The mystery of the 1980s’ most essential office machine, explained.

[1986] The fax of life: how did we send paper documents through the phone line?

The mystery of the 1980s’ most essential office machine, explained.

#tech #nostalgia #office #retro #fax #history

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[1986] Amazing Amiga: recalling the stunning visual renaissance in computing I will never forget the first time I ever saw a “jpg” image.

[1986] Amazing Amiga: recalling the stunning visual renaissance in computing

I will never forget the first time I ever saw a “jpg” image.

#gaming #amiga #retrogaming #computers #nostalgia #tech #design #digitalarts #pixelartist #1980s

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The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting At the Met, the Finnish artist’s spare, melancholic work has the strange effect of jolting your senses.

At the Met, the melancholic work of the Finnish artist Helen Schjerfbeck has the strange effect of jolting your senses. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/c3UBhn

[1986] 40 years later: my boyhood memories of Chernobyl fallout in Sweden The radioactive cloud came straight in my direction.

[1986] 40 years later: my boyhood memories of Chernobyl fallout in Sweden

The radioactive cloud came straight in my direction.

#history #nuclear #coldwar #1980s

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Tack för de fina orden.

Häftigt! 🙌

Wow. I did not know that 🙌

[1985] Cheap sensation: a nostalgic look back at the legendary Sinclair ZX spectrum The impossibly plucky British computer that birthed an industry.

[1985] Cheap sensation: a nostalgic look back at the legendary Sinclair ZX spectrum

The impossibly plucky British computer that birthed an industry.

#tech #british #computing #zx #nostalgia #history #genx #generationx #1980s

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[1985] I tried starting my 40-year-old Commodore 64 and loading games from a tape Here’s what happened when I got it all set up.

[1985] I tried starting my 40-year-old Commodore 64 and loading games from a tape

Here’s what happened when I got it all set up.

#gaming #retrogaming #computers #tech #retro #C64 #nostalgia

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[1985] The 8-bit era: demystifying the sounds and graphics of 1980s computing Unpacking the 8-bit aesthetic — bit by bit.

[1985] The 8-bit era: demystifying the sounds and graphics of 1980s computing

Unpacking the 8-bit history and aesthetic — bit by bit.

#8bit #pixelart #tech #design #nostalgia #1980s

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[1985] Here’s what Lego should have announced in 2026: a classic kit from 1982 Has Lego lost the plot with smart bricks? They need to bring back the 8700 kits.

[1985] Here’s what Lego should have announced in 2026: a classic kit from 1982

Has Lego lost the plot with smart bricks? They need to bring back the 8700 kits.

#lego #build #tech #retro #nostalgia #1980s

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I didn’t e even spot the “96” 😅

Brilliant. My friend got one in 1986 too and my jaw dropped. My next computer after the C64 was an IBM clone XT or AT (whichever was first).

[1985] All hail the Commodore 64: the greatest computer of all time I witnessed home computing’s “iPhone moment”.

[1985] All hail the Commodore 64: the greatest computer of all time

I witnessed home computing’s “iPhone moment”.

#computers #gaming #retrogaming #nostalgia #1980s #retro #tech

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[1985] The mystery around Marty McFly’s original Casio watch in Back to the Future Having a calculator wristwatch in the 1980s was the height of cool.

[1985] The mystery around Marty McFly’s original Casio watch in Back to the Future

Having a calculator wristwatch in the 1980s was the height of cool.

#tech #retro #watches #casio #nostalgia #backtotyefuture #1980s #genx #generationx

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[1985] Rewind the tape: a requiem to the glorious format and culture of the cassette A journey back to the tape-tastic days of the 1980s.

[1985] Rewind the tape: a requiem to the glorious format and culture of the cassette

A journey back to the tape-tastic days of the 1980s.

#music #gaming #tapes #cassettes #nostalgia #noai #1980s #genx

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[1985] Boomboxes & breakdancing: memories of the birth of hip hop culture Technology altered the course of popular culture and created a new golden age.

[1985] Boomboxes & breakdancing: memories of the birth of hip hop culture

Technology altered the course of popular culture and created a new golden age.

#hiphop #technology #nostalgia #history #popculture #1980s

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[1985] Words built worlds: the epic text-based adventure games that shaped a genre How Oregon, Zork, Colossal Cave & Taipan! started it all.

[1985] Words built worlds: the epic text-based adventure games that shaped a genre

How Oregon, Zork, Colossal Cave & Taipan! started it all.

#gaming #adventure #retrogaming #nostalgia #computing #education #reasoning

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[1985] Pre-internet childhood: the joy of pulling electronics apart and tinkering Sometimes kids just want to break things to see what’s inside.

[1985] Pre-internet childhood: the joy of pulling electronics apart and tinkering

Sometimes kids just want to break things to see what’s inside.

#electronics #childhood #STEM #education

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[1985] Pre-internet childhood: fond memories of building plastic scale models as a boy I unboxed a 1/72 scale MiG 29 once again at age 50+.

[1985] Pre-internet childhood: fond memories of building plastic scale models as a boy

#hobby #childhood #noscreens #1980s #nostalgia #retro

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