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• A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator

  Several years ago I came across the first issue of "Television" magazine from 1928 and reading it blew my mind in a couple ways. (https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37097) First, the overall tone is remarkably similar to a 1970s homebrew computer club newsletter, including defining what "television" even is (and isn't). For example, We learn on page 10 that "television is not tele-photography." It's clear from this... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Television is 100 years old today

  Early television was a hotbed of hacker/hobbyist DIY experimentation much like early radio and early personal computers. The first issue of "Television Magazine" from 1928 (https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37097) has a remarkably similar vibe to 1970s computer zines (https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1977-01/). For example, page 26 has directions on how to pop by the local chemist to pick up materials to... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12M

  Https://comicbookplus.com would have it legally as the Copyright expired long ago. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

  That analog television not only was prototyped nearly a hundred years ago but then began being deployed at vast consumer scale ~75 years ago is still just so amazing. It's worth understanding a bit about how it works just to appreciate what a wildly ambitious hack it was. From real-time image acquisition to transmission to display, many of the fundamental technologies didn't even exist and had to be invented then... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video]

  As the current AAA games are as playable as mediocre movies, and the movies themselves are nothing but soulless remakes, I'd prefer to get some public domain comic books from https://comicbookplus.com and get some stories from Ditko, the non-superhero based ones, but the ones from mistery/scifi themes, kinda like a comic version of The Twilight Zone. On proper gaming, most AAA games are lacking against Slashem,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

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