Author: ChrisC

The Apple 1 at Retro Computer Adverts.

Retro Computer Adverts has a rather special post to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apple’s founding; a look at their first – and probably most important product – the Apple 1.

VFX artists vs. The Golden Gate Bridge

‘Before & After’ has a rather fun article on the VFX destruction of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

‘I love you, Dr. Zaius!’

Has it really been thirty years since the ‘Stop the Planet of the Apes. I Want to Get Off!‘ segment first went out on TV? It’s still fantastic.

There’s also a very nice article on ‘The Vulture‘ that dips into the history of it’s production.

‘British Railways Locomotives’ (circa 1956)

British Railways Locomotives. Science Museum Group. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence. Click to embiggen.

A lovely poster from the Science Museum Group; British Railways Locomotives from around 1956.

Fire from the <strike>Gods</strike> Suffolk

LiveScience has a nice article on the earliest discovery of human-controlled fire creation technology. Apparently 400,000 years ago the good people of Suffolk liked to sit around a nice warm fire!

Bishopthorpe Ferry

I’ve just added a new page on the Bishopthorpe Ferry to ‘Crossing the Ouse‘. Why not go and have a look?

Ephemeral 80s

While I have both tags and categories marked as ‘Ephemera’, my random collection of witterings about various bits of historic ephemera is no-where near as well structured or as well targeted as Ephemeral 80s.

Welcome to Ephemeral 80s

I’m going to be honest, while any site can be for anyone, you probably have to be of a certain age and to have spent time in certain select (but middling) British demographics for it to truly hit home.

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Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History

The Computer History Museum has a really nice video on how they extracted the data from the University of Utah’s UNIX V4 tape and recovered the first C version of UNIX.

They appear to have uploaded the recovered data to the Internet Archive here.