Tueday Tech: My New PA
No, I’ve not suddenly hired a PA, I’m of course referring to Siri. It was time to move on from my tired iPhone 3GS so I bit the bullet and queued for 2 hours at the O2 store for my 4S. Aside from the technical improvements, new camera, etc, I was most intrigued by Siri. [...]
Tuesday Tech: Atari XE
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 [...]
Tueday Tech: 3D Printers
Following on from my Arduino article a couple of weeks ago, another area that is making in-roads to the hobbyist is 3D printing. In case you’re not sure what 3D printing is, it’s exactly as it sounds, the “printing” of objects in three dimensions. Imagine a printer that instead of printing a photo of a [...]
Tuesday Tech: Apple – The Early Years
OSX Lion was released last week, and in a bold move Apple have moved away from a physical distribution medium. To get the new OS, you have to download it through the app store. They are the first company to switch to this model, so we’ll have to wait to see the results. Whilst I’m [...]
Tuesday Tech: Arduino
I’ve been covering a lot of retro technology the past few weeks, so for a change I thought I’d talk about something a lot more cutting edge. So the week it’s all about Arduino, the open source micro-controller platform. The Arduino is based on the Atmel AVR processor range which is mounted onto a board [...]
Tuesday Tech: Rabbit
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 [...]
Tuesday Tech: The Gameboy
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 [...]
Tuesday Tech: The Vectrex
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 [...]
Tuesday Tech: The Osborne 1
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 [...]
Tuesday Tech: The BBC Micro
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 [...]
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