8bit Architect — Beige boxes, real stories
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HISTORY
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The Commodore PET: a wooden box, a six-month deadline and the machine that made Commodore
The prototype was made of wood In the small hours before the doors opened at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, in January 1977, a handful of Commodore engineers were still…
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Inside the Commodore PET 2001: a 6502, a TTL video board and a lot of sockets
Lift the lid of a Commodore PET 2001 and the first thing you notice is how little is going on. There is…
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The Commodore PET: a wooden box, a six-month deadline and the machine that made Commodore
The prototype was made of wood In the small hours before the doors opened at the Winter Consumer…
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The Timex Sinclair 2068: the improved Spectrum that broke its own software library
Michael Wiesenberg had reviewed enough machines by December 1983 to know when something felt genuinely well made. Sitting…
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The computer LG would rather you forgot
Sat in a display case in Cambridge, wedged between a Dragon 32 and a machine nobody can quite…
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The Tatung Einstein: Britain’s most curious computer
In a rented office above a chip shop in Manchester, sometime in 1985, a games programmer feeds a…
Machine reference
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The reference page you wish existed before you bought the thing
Every machine we write about gets a spec page: chipsets, ports, known faults, and every article that mentions it.