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	<title>esotechnica &#187; Retro</title>
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		<title>Goodbye, Ceefax&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/goodbye-ceefax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analogue TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceefax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s pioneering service Ceefax is to be switched off in 2012. Not bad for a service that recently celebrated its 35th birthday. (Thanks to Mike Brown, you can even spend An Evening With Ceefax, as it was in 1982&#8230;) Most countries have their own text-based services, which are delivered in a few spare lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s &#8216;oldest&#8217; computer to live again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/britains-oldest-computer-to-live-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/britains-oldest-computer-to-live-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDSAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchester Baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pilot ACE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WITCH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m slightly behind the times here, but the Harwell computer, used by Britain&#8217;s Atomic Energy Research Establishment (based in Harwell, Oxfordshire, hence the computer&#8217;s name, I suppose) is to be restored to working order. For a computer that first ran in 1951, it has an impressive working life: it was finally decommissioned in 1973. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Guard! The story of Sage</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/03/on-guard-the-story-of-sage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/03/on-guard-the-story-of-sage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mainframe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Semi-Automatic Ground Equipment computer (known as SAGE) was a 1950s IBM product &#8211; computers as cold war weaponry! On The Internet Archivea 12 minute 1956 documentary about it&#8230; Don&#8217;t forget to read the comments too &#8211; some are fascinating! Interesting footnote: some of the parts later got &#8220;recycled&#8221; to use as the computer in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grundig SVR4004</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/12/grundig-svr4004-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/12/grundig-svr4004-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betamax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartrivision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grundig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[U-Matic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By the time my primary school bought a video recorder - some time in the late 1970s, if I recall correctly - I was already quite familiar with video recorders (I think we had a Betamax at the time, but I don't remember correctly).  I do remember, however, being fascinated by the fact that the tapes were square, rather than rectangular, meaning that the two spools were stacked one above the other, rather than being next to each other as VHS, Beta and Video 2000 tapes were.]]></description>
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		<title>Oldest known BBC recording</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/12/oldest-known-bbc-recording/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/12/oldest-known-bbc-recording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1920s, the BBC was transmitting a single television channel (actually the only television channel transmitting in Britain) using the first system to be given an ITU letter designation. System A was positive modulation &#8211; meaning that dropouts were light patches rather than dark ones, as seen in later systems such as the 625-line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernest Pike at firstworldwar.com</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/11/ernest-pike-at-firstworldwarcom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/11/ernest-pike-at-firstworldwarcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ernest Pike]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florrie Forde]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harry Champion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Payne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marie Lloyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vesta Tilley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War One]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian newspaper has recently been running a fascinating series of booklets on the First World War, and recommended a site called firstworldwar.com.  Checking them out they have a great range of vintage recordings, by famous names such as Vesta Tilley, Marie Lloyd, Florrie Forde, Harry Champion&#8230;  and Ernest Pike/Herbert Payne of course.  Sadly, there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting sites » Bitsavers</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/bitsavers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/bitsavers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDP-11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VAX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fabulous resource for anyone who&#8217;s interested in mini and micro computers (such as Multics, PDP-11s, VAXs and so on) &#8211; the site Bitsavers has a huge repository of documents (scanned as PDFs) as well as software for mini and microcomputers from the 1950s to the 1980s.]]></description>
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		<title>Open All Hours</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/06/open-all-hours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/06/open-all-hours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ernest Pike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Payne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronnie Barker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Knew I&#8217;d heard it before, but the penny just dropped (as the saying goes). &#8220;Alice Where Art Thou&#8221; is the theme to the classic Ronnie Barker/David Jason sitcom &#8220;Open All Hours&#8220;. Spaceman Spiff notes that the Bizzarotron has been reading a little low lately&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Mikado, 1906 style&#8230;  and a couple more&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/06/the-mikado-1906-style-and-a-couple-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/06/the-mikado-1906-style-and-a-couple-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ernest Pike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More Ernie Pike has come to light in my never-ending quest to fill my life with sentimental Edwardian-era music. Actually, this is possibly of interest to scholars, this time, as it&#8217;s one of the earliest recordings of The Mikado, from 1906.  The notorious stage piracy of the time (and I don&#8217;t mean The Pirates Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite 10 Commodore 64 soundtracks</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/12/my-favourite-10-commodore-64-soundtracks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/12/my-favourite-10-commodore-64-soundtracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HVSC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SidPlay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You could, I suppose, download the entire High Voltage Sid Collection, SidPlay for Windows (or MacOS, or the WinAmp plugin) and  listen to everything and decide your own.  Or you can follow my idiosyncratic, biased and &#8211; at times &#8211; insultingly abusive list to find your favourites.  (Disclaimer: other ratings lists, such as the HSVC [...]]]></description>
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