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  Hans R Camenzind the famous engineer who created the 555 Timer integrated Circuit passed away. The EE Times has an article on it and you can read about it here: http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4394166/Hans-Camenzind-dies

ATHANA International, is based out of California they manufacture 3.5″, 5.25″ and 8″ disks as well as Magnetic Tape and Data Cartridges. I think it’s great that there are companies that still make media for our vintage computers Thanks to … Continue reading →

Tron will be turning 30 this year… Yes… Tron was released on July 9th 1982 and well every vintage computer person I know has something in common. They like the movies Tron and War Games. War Games will be 30 … Continue reading →

Thank you artist Chris G over at deviantart.      

I know I haven’t posted anything in a few months… The problem being is that I was busy, hopefully I am going to get someone to help me and make it better. With luck 2012 will be much better.   … Continue reading →

Today is a sad day.. Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs is dead.. All I can say right now is may he rest in peace… I thank him and Steve Wozniak for starting Apple Computer and for all the wonderful technologies that … Continue reading →

The BBC has an article about the death of Tony Sale. He is well known in our community for being the lead on the construction of a replica of the Colossus computer in the UK. Wikipedia has a great entry … Continue reading →

David Greelish is a Computer Historian from Atlanta GA. He runs a number of Classic Computing projects He is President, Atlanta Historical Computing Society He runs a website classiccomputing.com He also has a podcast “The Retro Computing Roundtable“ About a … Continue reading →