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Assorted photos from Rutherford Appleton Lab, including a number of transputer conferences; features some familiar faces...

to academia computing history inmos retrotech transputer ... on 11 March 2010

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Prokudin-Gorskii Search edit / delete

Raw versions of the (now reasonably well-known) colour images of Russia in the early years of the 20th century.

to images photography retrotech russia ... on 20 February 2010

DJ5IL - Amateur Radio Station edit / delete

Good (extremely skeptical) article on "How the Microvert Works", and lots of radio history stuff, with some cool photos.

to antenna ham history microvert radio retrotech ... on 08 February 2010

Western Historic Radio Museum edit / delete

Some impressive 1930s/1940s radio restorations, with an emphasis on communications gear.

to radio retrotech ... on 05 February 2010

Welcome to Yet Another Miscellany edit / delete

I must have bookmarked this before -- various radio stuff, including a collection of entertaining stories from glowbugs, and a gazpacho recipe.

to electronics radio recipes retrotech soup ... on 31 January 2010

The Trouble with Telstar by John Berryman - Project Gutenberg edit / delete

SF short story about servicing a satellite. Some neat parallels with the Hubble servicing mission. (And yay, someone's started scanning early Analog for PG! I have a few UK issues from the same timeframe, if anyone's interested...)

to etext retrotech sf ... on 21 January 2010

Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer - Project Gutenberg edit / delete

"A Romance of Dots and Dashes." 1880 novel about online romance, via the medium of the telegraph. Not great literature, but it's amusing to see how little has changed.

to amusements etext retrotech telegraph ... on 08 January 2010

Amateur Radio Station W1UJR edit / delete

Some very impressive 1930s/1940s radio restorations.

to electronics radio retrotech ... on 08 January 2010

WBCQ The Planet edit / delete

Shortwave station in the US run by ex-pirates. Their photo gallery is well worth checking out -- that's some very cool equipment!

to broadcast pirate radio retrotech shortwave ... on 30 December 2009

Ronald's electronic project site edit / delete

Nixie clocks, power supplies for them, and a variety of Philips-related material -- including some neat 19th-century photos of Philips staff.

to display electronics history nixie philips psu retrotech valve ... on 27 December 2009