Category Archives: nostalgia

Computer Lib / Dream Machines at 50

Posted on March 31, 2024 by blogmywiki

From time to time, I’ve posted snippets from Ted Nelson’s 1974 book(s) Computer Lib / Dream Machines on various social networks but, now it’s fifty years old, it seems like a good moment to pull together some of the eye-catching … Continue reading →

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Surias – writing a program can be fun!

Posted on June 29, 2023 by blogmywiki

This is an unpublished article I wrote in around 1981 about a game my brother and I wrote for the Commodore PET. I am yet to find a program listing or cassette for the game, which I would love to … Continue reading →

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BASYS nostalgia fest

Posted on November 15, 2021 by blogmywiki

BASYS was a newsroom computer system used very widely in the 1980s and 90s by many radio and TV broadcasters: the BBC and ITN in the UK, CNN and NBC in the USA, the ABC in Australia and probably many … Continue reading →

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Ceefax from an old Raspberry Pi

Posted on October 30, 2021 by blogmywiki

Got an old Raspberry Pi? Nostalgic for the golden age of teletext? Why not make your own in-house teletext server? For those who may be unaware, teletext was a service common in European (PAL TV standard) countries that transmitted news … Continue reading →

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One moment please, while I arrange the galaxy

Posted on September 19, 2021 by blogmywiki

In 1977, the second computer I ever used was my dad’s Commodore PET 2001. This massive, sphinx-like machine of bent-steel with its terrible calculator keyboard, built-in cassette drive and ghostly white CRT monitor surrounded with a slightly IBM-ish shade of … Continue reading →

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