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Decks and plugs and rock and roll: Tascam CD-A750 cassette and CD combo

Anniversary review I'll give you my tapes when you pry them from my cold, dead hands
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Bob Dormon, 04 Sep 09:03

Compact Cassette supremo Lou Ottens talks to El Reg

Anniversary Q&A 'Successful products are created by normal people who just follow their intuition'
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Bob Dormon, 02 Sep 09:04

Happy 50th birthday, Compact Cassette: How it struck a chord for millions

Feature From fuss-free audio tape recording to Walkmans, it's all in your head
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Bob Dormon, 30 Aug 15:04

MIDI daddy Dave Smith: '30 years of version 1.0 shows we got it right'

Q & A El Reg chats to muso interface co-founder on this enduring digital spec
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Bob Dormon, 28 Aug 09:03

Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk

Geek's Guide to Britain When is a wheel not a wheel? When it's a lift
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Bill Ray, 27 Aug 09:33

Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Slave to the rhythm

Feature Part Two: The notes in the machine
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Bob Dormon, 26 Aug 08:02

NEWS

Acorn’s would-be ZX Spectrum killer, the Electron, is 30

Archaeologic The story of the BBC Micro Junior
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Tony Smith, 23 Aug 09:04

Signing out of a broken Britain: The final Quatermass serial

Quatermass at 60 Ley-ing it on thick with alien beams and hippie dreams
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Andrew Orlowski, 26 Jul 09:06

Goodbye Blighty: The alternative reality of Quatermass II

Quatermass at 60 Swapping Pimms for Schnapps and Vodka
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Gavin Clarke, 22 Jul 09:57

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Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Getting pop stars wired for 30 years

Feature Part One: Something to make a song and dance about
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Bob Dormon, 19 Aug 09:02

Mars, bringer of WAR: Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass at 60 Britain’s arch boffin battles our erstwhile Martian overlords
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Tony Smith, 24 Jul 07:59

1953: How Quatermass switched Britons from TV royalty to TV sci-fi

Quatermass at 60 Contact is established and a genre is born
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Joe Fay, 18 Jul 09:43

Unreal: Epic’s would-be Doom... er... Quake killer

Antique Code Show The best single-player FPS of its generation?
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Tony Smith, 16 Jul 10:05

What it was like to grow up around the world's first digital computers

Centenary And build slot machines out of the spare bits
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Gavin Clarke, 08 Jul 08:00

Prince of Persia: Baggy trousers and curvy swords

Antique Code Show Jordan Mechner’s animation classic
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Giles Hill, 01 Jul 11:06

Rise of the machines, south of Milton Keynes

Geek's Guide to Britain Computers make a noise at TNMOC
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Gavin Clarke, 29 Jun 09:07

30 years on: Remembering the Memotech MTX 500

Archaeologic Very possibly the second-best British micro of the early 1980s
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Tony Smith, 28 Jun 13:04

How Alan Turing wanted to base EDSAC's memory on BOOZE

Centenary From liquid memory to solid state - mercury moment was nearly gin dream
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Phil Manchester, 28 Jun 09:02
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IBM 3410 open reel tape subsystem

Tracking the history of magnetic tape: A game of noughts and crosses

Feature Part Two: 'Tis a spool's paradise, t' be surrrre
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Apple Newton MessagePad

Stylus counsel: The rise and fall of the Apple Newton MessagePad

Archaeologic 20 years on, the story of the handheld that might have changed the world
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Tony Smith, 17 Sep 09:04
Fritz Pfleumer with his magnetic tape recorder

Reelin' in the years: Tracking the history of magnetic tape

Anniversary feature Part One: From wheels of steel to ribbons of rust
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Bob Dormon, 09 Sep 15:03
Philips Compact Cassette launch 1963

Happy 50th birthday, Compact Cassette: How it struck a chord for millions

Feature From fuss-free audio tape recording to Walkmans, it's all in your head
156
Bob Dormon, 30 Aug 15:04
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