We bought a secondhand CD player last week. It's wonderfully refreshing to use a solid appliance with tactile knobs and buttons, that needs no internet access.

And an unexpected surprise: the CD player also has a cassette player. We opened it, and were amazed to find a working cassette inside. I don't think I have held one in at least 20 years. A real blast from the past!

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This incredibley neat haul of Amiga stuff came to us the other day ~ it was donated by a software developer and with it he had about 6 boxes of paperwork, CIB floppy disks and original software he programmed.
Some of the highlights were Animation Station, Railroad Tycoon, Shadowgate and Uninvited

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#retrotech #retromedia #amiga #retropc #commodore #amiga1000 #retrogaming

This is CogDogBlogged: "Following the Rumpled TV Detective in the Brown Trenchcoat Down The Web Rabbit Hole"

Here I go again. That darn crazy internet. One link catches sparkles my curiosity. I’ll just click and peek. I swear I won’t get distracted and start looking things up in weird archive. Just one more click…

Two hours later I emerge from the rabbit hole smiling. And later I go back to where I left my mark to go deeper.

While I read all the time the proclamations that the web is a burning […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2025/03/colmboxd/

#cogdogblog #RetroMedia #television

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I've been really enjoying RetroStrange TV to have playing in the background while I work. It's all public domain content. Old teleplays and movies, educational videos, cartoons, PSAs, etc. Nothing massively engaging, which is the point for me. Curated!

Some recent gems:
- old superman cartoons
- The Mole People (movie)
- Dark of the Moon (teleplay)
- explainers on how Cathode Ray Tubes work

Thanks @retrostrange!

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I’m pretty nerdy about old tech, but #CED was new to me today. It’s apparently an analog, stylus-based, video system that fit somewhere above VHS/Betamax but below Laserdisc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc

#retromedia #capacitanceelectronicdisc

If Chi-Chi's can come back after a nation-wide food poisoning scandal (which wasn't even truly their fault), and if Toys R Us can gradually come back after total bankruptcy and closure, then I think it's high time to bring back Media Play.

If those three can come back to even half of their success in the 90s/early 2000s, my childhood will live once more.

https://youtu.be/kapW8k5HoC0

#retro #RetroRetail #retail #retromedia

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If you liked Share and enjoy, you might also: publicise and propagate.

A daily papyrus newspaper, the Acta Diurna (Daily Events), was distributed in locations in Rome and around the Baths. Its motto was “Publicize And Propagate.” Probably the low-grade saitic or taenotic papyrus was used for daily publishing, no doubt one of the reasons that no scraps of the Acta Diurna have ever been found.

Whitewashed boards with news of the day were, also, posted in public places. The Acta Diurna kept Romans current on events of interest: weddings, births, deaths, crimes, trials, monies in the treasury from the provinces, the cost of the supply of grain, movements and events in the Imperial family, gossip columns on the latest amatory adventures of the rich and famous, gladiator events, military and political news as well as some human interest stories (dog lost far away finds way home) and astrological readings.

When Julius Caesar was Consul in 59 BC, he began the Acta Diurna and ordered it posted in markets, on the doors of temples and in all public places. Because no pieces of the daily newspaper are extant, we know about the gazette and its popularity with Romans, Christians and Barbarians only through ancient writers. In the writing of his Lives of the Caesars Suetonius used the Acta Diurna for dates and places of births, deaths and events. Through Tacitus we learn the newspaper was carried by courier throughout Rome’s vast empire and was eagerly read for current news from Rome. Describing a bit of intrigue between Nero and one of Nero’s opponents in the Senate named Thrasea, Tacitus says: “The journal of the Roman people is scanned through the provinces and armies with double care for news of what Thrasea has done.” Annals 16.22 Tacitus does, however, want to separate his great works of history from common journalism: “It has been held fitting to consign great events to the pages of history and details such as these (the foundation and beams of Nero’s amphitheater) to the urban gazette.” Annals 13.31 The daily gazette, published in Rome, continued until c. 330 when Emperor Constantine moved the seat of government to Constantinople.—Sandra Sweeny Silver

(Source: https://archive.is/ghmbd (archived from earlychurchhistory.org).)

#retronews #retromedia