Sally Gray flew to San Diego in December 1996 for a children’s science show with a name that already sounded like a dare. It’ll Never Work had sent her to the visual arts department at the University of California, and the brief was odd even by the standards of that series. She was supposed to […]
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Photo credit: ETZoneSony shipped the SMC-70 in September 1982 as its first real microcomputer, first in the United States for office work and then in Japan on December 1. Most people walking past a gray-and-silver slab that year would have assumed it belonged to NEC or Sharp. Few realized the company that made Trinitron sets […]
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Leica Puts a 100-Year-Old Leitz Family Leica I Back Together in Fascinating 2+ Hour Restoration Video
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Leica Camera posted a nearly two-and-a-half-hour film called Repairing a 100 Year Old Camera, and it does exactly what the title says. A technician in the company’s own workshop takes apart a Leica I that has lived with the Leitz family since the mid-1920s, finds the cloth that used to keep light out, and puts […]
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Fascinating Look Back at the Scott T-33S FM Tuner and Its Unforgettable Punch-Card Presets
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Most people who chase vintage audio gear talk about tubes, transformers, or the way certain tuners pull distant stations out of the noise. Few ever bring up an FM tuner whose most memorable feature was a thin slot on the front panel that accepted little cards punched with holes. The Scott T-33S, made between 1975 […]
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Fascinating Look Back at NEC’s 1988 Monitor (PC-KD863G) That Came With Its Own PC Engine Already Inside
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Back in 1988 most people bought a television and a game console as two separate purchases. NEC tried something different. The company released a 15-inch color CRT monitor that already contained a complete PC Engine console built into its lower section. Called the PC-KD863G, it launched on September 27 for 138,000 yen, a serious sum […]