09 Mar 12

We love London

I’m always on the look-out for opportunies to see who is doing what in this ever-changing creative landscape. Here at Corporate Edge we like to expose ourselves to everything and anything – to keep things fresh, relevant and innovative. As part of my creative journey, I recently joined The Alternative London Tour, which starts in [...]

Back to the retro theme this week with a personal favourite of mine, the Atari XE range. I’ll talk a bit about the XL computers too, as the XE is essential a re-packaged version of those. I remember vividly getting my first proper computer back in 1985,  an Atari 65XE, for Christmas. It was a [...]

This week I’ve had a special request from a colleague to talk about the Rabbit telephone network of the early 90s. It was a very early “mobile” network that was rolled out in the UK by Hutchinson. Basically a subscriber carried a special home telephone that could make calls within 100 metres of a Rabbit [...]

There can be little doubt that the Nintendo Gameboy changed the face of gaming. Launched in 1989 it was a major step forward in portable gaming. Until then gamers only had the choice of the little LCD games like the Game and Watch that pretty much just bleeped. On an aside, these are extremely collectable [...]

This week I’ve found a real gem of the gaming world, the Vectrex, which might make someone a very happy new owner. This was released in 1982 and was widely cited as a commercial failure, as it was finished by 1984. This was probably due to the North American video game crash of ’83, rather [...]

Sonic the Hedgehog is 20 years old today, and still going strong. Makes me feel very old as I remember very clearly when it came out as I was in the childrens ward in hospital! Sonic was Sega’s answer to Nintendo’s Mario, who is technically 30 this year. The little blue hedgehog has spawned several [...]

Lurking in the depths of my garage I came across an important milestone in computing history, the Osborne 1. This was effectively the first laptop that was produced. It’s more of a luggable though as it weighs in at a hefty 11 kilos! I can attest to this as I just about put my back [...]

This week I’ve dug deep into the back of an old wardrobe in the garage. Instead of finding a doorway to Narnia, I stumbled across my old BBC Master computer. Nothing epitomises computing for 80s school children more than the good old BBC Micro. It started as a project between the BBC Computer Literacy Project [...]

This weekend I started having a bit of a clear out at home, and stumbled on some old tech. This week my retro pick is the Apple Newton MessagePad. Launched in 1993, and mine purchased at a car boot sale in 2002, it was quite different to the other PDAs of the time. The tablet [...]

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