retro Archive

  • Golden age manuals

    Golden age manuals

    I spotted this post on Boing Boing a while back, and meant to write something about it at the time but kept putting it off.  It's been languishing at the bottom of my Google Reader Starred Items ever since, and as I'm in the ...

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  • Clearout

    Clearout

    In a brave attempt to rid myself of some of the cruft I've gathered over the years, I've recently had a somewhat brutal clearout.  As well as all the rubbish that I've collected, I'm planning to get rid of the vast majority of my ...

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  • How times change

    How times change

    I've been on a massive clearout session of my old computing stuff with a view to finally decluttering my life after twenty-some years of being an unrepentant hoarder, and I spotted an old brochure lying in the bottom of a box. Just think - for ...

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