| The curators at the UK Science Museum tracked down lost plans while researching a new exhibition. Eric is everything we now imagine a robot...
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| A while ago I picked up a second-hand Philips system multimeter on Marktplaats (the Dutch equivalent of eBay) with a minor defect for next t...
| I know electronic engineers who start crying in disbelief, calling me names, and pulling what’s left of their hairs, on hearing that a piece...
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| The ‘Tefifon’ was originally developed by Dr Karl Daniel in Germany in the 1930s as an answering machine. It used a flexible endless tape lo...
| It was all hands to the pump recently at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park in the UK when a team of 20 crack comput...
| Once upon a time, video games were not called video games, but “computer games” and they could only be played on mainframes like the PDP-1,...
| Have you ever seen a PIC-driven Enigma or a World War 2 Spy Set? In our previous webinar, CryptoMuseum’s Marc Simons and Paul Reuvers showc...
| Sure, the Elektor Bus was covered extensively in a series of articles in the magazine and these publications did not fail to draw good atten...
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| Like Hewlett Packard, Apple, and Nirvana, the humble beginnings of B&K Precision were in a US garage. In 1948, middle class Americans starte...
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| The HP-71B handheld computer caused something of a stir when Hewlett-Packard released it on February 1, 1984, some thirty years ago, with a...