age nostalgia
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia: the start of a small company called Novell (UK) in London's Regent Street or when I shared a Boston taxi with a chap named Ray Ozzie, who... [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite didn't feature on the poll… And from old computers to the latest in high-tech cool, the age-old debate - Mac... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? And just in case home computing... [22 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.09.06
Round-Up The same sort of nostalgia that leads men of a certain age to look at waif-like supermodels and reminisce about the time when 'real' ladies were rounder and curvier, like Marilyn Monroe or that Swedish... [15 Sep 2006]
My first computer: The BBC Micro
News Also, compared to the alternatives at the time, it offered a surprisingly nippy 2Mhz chip and a full size, adult keyboard - less nostalgia value than the 'dead flesh' feel Sinclair had gone for, with its post-ZX81... [20 Jan 2005]
Best of Reader Comments: Your first computer
News At the age of seven, I learnt enough DOS commands to find and run my favourite program 'Sheep'. Do you remember your first computer? Punch cards, soldering kits, valves, flashing lights.those were the days. [11 Apr 2002]
Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro
Comment Also, compared to the alternatives at the time, it offered a surprisingly nippy 2Mhz chip and a full size, adult keyboard - less nostalgia value than the 'dead flesh' feel Sinclair had gone for, with its post-ZX81... [28 Jan 2002]
Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro
News Also, compared to the alternatives at the time, it offered a surprisingly nippy 2Mhz chip and a full size, adult keyboard - less nostalgia value than the 'dead flesh' feel Sinclair had gone for, with its post-ZX81... [25 Jan 2002]
Those were the days: The Acorn Electron
Comment She added: "I have the good old Electron to thank for sending me (at the age of 40! Yet again a journey down memory lane has produced a torrent of reader feedback, this week on the subject of the Acorn Electron... [25 Jan 2002]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Hotmail security fears and PC birthday arguments
Comment Yesterday IBM celebrated the '20th Anniversary of the PC' with 'nostalgia and hope'. Many places refuse to employ anyone under the age of about 23, which is highly politically incorrect. I am at least,... [16 Aug 2001]
