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Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre

Geeks' Guide Dom Connor and the cool Cold Warriors
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Dominic Connor, 28 Mar 10:00

Blighty's revolutionary Cold War teashop computer - and Nigella Lawson

Geek's Guide Nuclear missile with your sponge finger, sir?
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Gavin Clarke, 27 Mar 13:27

The Lynx effect: The story of Camputers' mighty micro

Feature The cat from Cambridge that clawed its way to the top... almost
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Tony Smith, 20 Mar 12:19

SimCity 4

Antique Code Show Well, burgher me backwards
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Mike Plant, 14 Mar 12:04

Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story

Feature The rise and fall of a 'revolutionary' storage technology
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Tony Smith, 13 Mar 08:26

NEWS

Official: Cloud computing invented by two technophobic old geezers

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Blue sky thinking by mistake
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Alistair Dabbs, 22 Feb 12:03

SimCity Classic

Antique Code Show Micromanage your own mock metropolis
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Mike Plant, 22 Feb 10:28

Paper computers: Not mere pulp fiction

Something for the Weekend, Sir? That’s torn it
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Alistair Dabbs, 08 Feb 11:10

The Oric-1 is 30

Feature The colourful story of a would-be Spectrum killer
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Tony Smith, 28 Jan 12:02

Brit 2.5-tonne nuke calculator is World's Oldest Working Computer

Elderly giant takes 10 seconds to divide a number
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Anna Leach, 25 Jan 15:02

Happy birthday, Lisa: Apple's slow but heavy workhorse turns 30

The story of the machine the Mac maker would rather you forgot
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Bob Dormon, 18 Jan 10:02

FEATURES

Mosaic spinning world logo

Mosaic turns 20: Let's fire up the old girl, show her the web today

Grandmother to IE and Firefox, the web's first popular browser
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Sord M5

Sord drawn: The story of the M5 micro

Feature The 1983 Japanese home computer that tried to cut it in the UK
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Tony Smith, 23 Apr 09:00
Sonic X-treme

Sonic the Hedgehog

Antique Code Show Sega's spikey blue erinaceinus across platforms, across time
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Giles Hill, 11 Apr 12:00
Sinclair Research ZX81

The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME

Product Round-up Gorgeous kit that looks as good now as it did the day it came out
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Tony Smith, 09 Apr 08:59