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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Nintendo have reportedly decided to cease all repairs and support of their original Nintendo NES games console, according to a report on BetaNews. The end of this 24 year long support is due to increasingly short supplies of [...]

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Don’t throw away your LP/Vinyl discs just yet because TEAC’s unique LP player hopes to give your classic machine a nex-gen makeover! 
TEAC has been offering the LP-R400 in Japan for several years now (shocking i know) but the player boasts some shnazzy features like a Radio (AM/FM) and a CD recorder, which will allow you [...]

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Does this bring back a few memories or what?
This is a Mac user vs. PC user comparison from the September 1996 issue of MacAddict.
Some people seem to think this was an Apple ad. This was not actually an Apple ad - it was simply part of a MacAddict article. At the time Apple was [...]

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The applebog found an interesting post on MSN today where 10 of the ugliest design disasters in tech history were exposed. And guess what made the list? - Microsoft’s very own brown Zune player (pictured above)
It’s nice to know that MS has a sense of humour by self-criticising of one of their own products on [...]

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Another fantastic idea from the boys at Thinkgeek - the only problem i have with the above is the damn model - is that suppose to be a pose or is that supposed to be his happy face?!
“A few of us monkeys at ThinkGeek had this great shared dream a few months ago. In it, [...]

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Could you imagine carrying this old-skool brick around with you and using it as your Bluetooth handset? - This is bound to bring out a few million laughs!
Thinkgeek has taken the ever-popular Retro Telephone Handset and updated it to connect to your cell phone using Bluetooth
technology!
Now people will think you’re really crazy talking [...]

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Those were the days……NOT!

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Today the internet is a fancy, flashy and fast-paced world. Almost everything is done online - shopping, playing, chatting, emailing and much much more.
But it wasn’t always like this.
Lets take a trip down memory lane and re-visit the web when it was merely text based with an occasional logo or product picture.
Here is a [...]

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According to net monitoring site Netcraft, the UK based EBuyer has hosted its website on old school equipment. Currently a Dragon 32, but has used in the past year a CRAY supercomputer, C64s, MSX, PETs and rubber keyed 48k Spectrum.
Unfortunately the web server identification is bogus, mainly to confuse potential crackers but also as an [...]

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Every now and then on ComNetSlash we have a retro feature which reminds us of the earlier days of home gaming or computing. Recently I donated a piece of my own gaming history to the Museum of Computing, an original Japanese Nintendo Famicom, to their latest exhibition - From Pong to Playstation.
The exhibition charts the [...]

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remember this one?
It’s an old advertisment for the amazing Atari ST!!!

cool huh

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Here’s another blast from the past. The Super Nintendo,

How good do the graphics look???
Remember the superscope?

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