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2012-2-17 19:00
How it used to be: Magnetic wire recorders
If I were to ask you to briefly sum up the history of sound recording, I'm sure you would begin with something like Thomas Edison's cylinder-based ...
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2012-2-17 18:59
How it used to be: Have your heard of magnetic wire recorders?
A summary of the history of sound recording would usually begin with something like Thomas Edison's cylinder-based phonograph circa 1878 as illus ...
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2012-2-13 14:41
How it used to be: Fiddling, twiddling with TV controls
There was once a radio comedy program called The Goon Show when I was a kid in England. It was originally broadcast by the BBC Home Service from ...
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2012-2-12 20:45
How it used to be: Seeing my first colour television
When I was kid, my family didn't have a lot of money. This is not to say that we were desperate, you understand, just that there wasn't a lot of fr ...
用户3826190
2012-2-10 16:57
Oh no... Not again!
I'm beginning to feel particularly silly, because yet another DIY electronics hobby project has failed to perform as expected... Last year, ...
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2012-2-10 16:45
Don't you think science is exciting...
1927. It was an interesting year as all kinds of things were happening. For example, work started on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South ...
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2012-2-9 18:54
How it used to be: Watching test card on TV
Nowadays we're inundated with hundreds of television channels. I would say that we are spoilt for choice if it wasn't for the fact that so much of ...
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2012-2-9 18:44
Tricky dilemma! Where were our wireless packets?
Note: This story is brought to us from Ricardo Motta, who saw an earlier How it used to be column on PDP and VAX/VMS Systems and decided to ...
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2012-2-5 21:49
Is this a banana in my pocket, or am I just happy to see you? (Part 2)
I tell you ... we could be here for hours talking about the stuff I found on the Geeky-Gadgets.com website, but I shall restrain myself ...
用户3826190
2012-2-2 19:25
Is this a banana in my pocket, or am I just happy to see you?
It's true that the old jokes are the best ones. I once walked into a friend's office and said "Is this a banana in my pocket or am I just glad to ...
用户3826190
2012-2-1 18:42
How it used to be: PDP and VAX computers
Note: This "How it used to be" story told by Benny Attar truly takes me back in time. When I started with Cirrus Designs back in 1981, we had ...
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2012-1-31 19:51
My precious robotic balls!
Have you seen my recent column " I like those robotic balls "? Well, I now have one of my very own ( "...my precious, my precious..." ) An ...
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2012-1-31 19:48
I now have my own robotic ball (and I'm not afraid to use it)!
Have you seen my recent column " Robotic balls caught my eye! "? Well, I now have one of my very own ( "...my precious, my precious..." ) An ...
用户3826190
2012-1-30 20:35
I like those robotic balls!
One product really caught my attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)—the smart robotic balls. Quite apart from anything else, I ha ...
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2012-1-30 12:07
Do you get the feeling that something's watching us?
I am utterly fond of seeing pictures of other galaxies and nebula and stuff (see also my column How it used to be: Seeing stars at night ). Some o ...
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