RetroChallenge 2024/10 reflections
I started this year’s project with a challenge from an old Sharp Users Club magazine. “Who on earth would want to emulate an MZ-80K … ?” We do hobbies for
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Category: Reflections
The long goodbye
The Zilog Z80 has now had its final production run, but I’m sure there will be plenty of them still working away for the next few decades(*). For nostalgia purposes
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The Nine Billion Names of God
Sometime in the mid-1970s, my grandmother gave me a book of Arthur C. Clarke’s short stories. The first story in the book, The Nine Billion Names of God, was written
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The Millennium Bug
As told to Royal and Sunalliance customers sometime in the late 1990s. That very little went wrong over the Millennium wasn’t because it didn’t have real potential to mess things
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Pascal – a false idol?
The front cover of my copy of Computing Today from September 1980 is, by 2021 standards … odd. Just as odd for a magzine dedicated to the 80s microcomputer scene
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