Tasty » Adam Sampson's retrotech bookmarks

Foxhole radio - Bizarre Labs edit / delete

Building "crystal" radios without crystals.

to electronics radio retrotech ... on 07 September 2006

The Carl and Jerry stories from Popular Electronics, October 1954 through December 1964 edit / delete

to amusements electronics radio retrotech ... on 13 August 2006

Viewpoints on the History of Digital Synthesis edit / delete

to history music retrotech synth ... on 13 August 2006

8-Track Heaven -- Home of 8-Track Mind edit / delete

to audio history recording retrotech ... on 13 August 2006

Computer Laboratory - Relics Project - Virtual Exhibition edit / delete

Some Cambridge computing history stuff. This is the overview page; there are more detailed lists of artefacts there too.

to cambridge electronics history retrocomputing retrotech ... on 13 August 2006

Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition) edit / delete

Very early (and very impressive) colour photos from Russia.

to history photography retrotech ... on 13 August 2006

Phone Trips edit / delete

Recordings of phone systems from various countries (mostly 70s-era). Includes one from Andy Emmerson. The "Evan Doorbell" ones are excellent -- better-quality presentation than many radio programmes.

to audio phone retrotech telecoms ... on 05 August 2006

The Brenell tape recorder edit / delete

to audio retrotech ... on 30 July 2006

VOIP Front-End to Analog Switches edit / delete

Telephone equipment collectors building their own international network using Asterisk. Some interesting stuff in the mailing list archives.

to asterisk retrotech telecoms ... on 28 July 2006

The 1945 Proposal by Arthur C. Clarke for Geostationary Satellite Communications edit / delete

In Wireless World.

to clarke history retrotech satellite ... on 28 July 2006