July '08 (11.4MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
The first pocket computers; Historic hypertext and how the WWW could have started much earlier; The development of car driving games; Vintage personal data-calculators; Entex handheld games; Cordless phones; Flip clocks; Merits of using traditional auction houses vs. eBay; Commodore PET repairs; Daisy wheel printers; ZX Spectrum memories
June '08 (7.71MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
1970s television sets; Collectible digital cameras; Vintage game-watches; Mattel Aquarius – computer or colourful toy?; Vintage chess computers; Centipede arcade game; Vintage game-calculators; Vintage car radios; Light pens – magic wand or fun gimmick?; Dolls' house retro electronic delights; Unusual computer/gaming memorabilia; Repairing ZX Spectrums
May '08 (7.16MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
Old-school computer learning; Early modems in the US & UK; Commodore PET computers; Tomy handheld electronic games; Flight sims - flying with home computers; Defender - the thinking man's arcade shoot-em up; Learn about maths the vintage way; Vintage voice recorders; First 'personal' radios; Interview with Richard Hanson - Superior Software founder'; Will my vintage electronics collection still work in 100 years time?; Vintage LED clocks; Repairing handheld games; HP calculator memories
April '08 (5.70MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
Vintage VHS video recorders - why we love them; The brave new world of videotex; Whatever happened to the teasmade?; Sega Master System - worthy rival to the NES; Sinclair ZX80 - 1st computer for under £100; Hard disks - humble, but collectible; Review of retro games for the Xbox & Playstsation; 1970s Sanyo calculators; Vintage hi-fi headphones; 1980s novelty radios; Interview with Dave Johnson - ColecoVision programmer; Lets party retro-tech style; Imagination Machine memories
March '08 (6.19MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
GO Compuserve! Back when mice ran on wheels; I love my Tandy CoCo; ColeoVision – the arcade experience brought home; Mattel handheld games; Sinclair calculators – elegant little number crunchers; Seiko TV-Watch and its legacy; Early Technics receivers; The first one-way teletext services; Don Wetzel, co-patentee of the automatic teller machine; 70s & 80s answering machines; When compulsive hoarding gets out of hand; Adjusting CRT colour monitors; The Atari user shows
February '08 (6.11MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
First computer viruses, Epson HX-20 – world's first laptop, Early computing predictions – how many came true?, The best TV retro game consoles, Doom and the birth of LAN games, Magnavox Odyssey – the first home video game system, Commodore calculators, The first personal cassette players or ‘Walkmans', Early pocket televisions;Interview with Tilly Blythe, curator of Computing, Science Museum, UK; What type of collector are you?, Personal robots of the 1980s, The first LCD watches and their evolution, Cleaning old electrical equipment, Computer time sharing memories
January '08 (5.76MB)
£0.99/$1.99
Features include:
Osborne-1 computer, Origin of emoticons, The beginning of computer adventure games, Potted history of Pac-Man, Nintendo Game & Watch games, TI-59 programmable calculator, 1970s/80s calculator watches, First ghettoblasters, Early portable turntables, 1970s novelty radios, The first mobile phones, How to placate your non-collector, ultimatum-issuing partner; Interview with Wayne Ratliff - creator of dBase, Commodore disk drives - diagnostics & repair, Commodore 64 memories
