How many generations can your old media survive?

About a week or two ago, I picked up a cable to convert my old VHS tapes to digital format on my laptizzle. Most of my tapes that I’m converting are pretty old. I guess when I have time, I will also convert my cassette tapes via audacity and share them Read More...

What tha heck is a comptometer?

Here is one of my rainy day posts. A few weeks ago, I had a enlightening discussion about calculator usage with one of my fellow mathematicians. She stated that we were actually considered software to the contraption to left. This image is identified Read More...

Going retro today…

Great video from the 70’s… Same technology today can be found at the nearest dollar store. And to imagine… The kid in the video with the glasses, Elliot was me back in the day; but my TRS-CoCo was the original, not CoCo3. In 1969, they were right on target Read More...

Do you recognize…

…these ancient antique vintage technology artifacts of the ’80s? If you have the opportunity, quiz your students (or even yourself!) to see if they can identify and describe the functions of the above images (extension: compare and contrast the images Read More...