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Considering actually buying a phone with a cord? I would, my phone is constantly dead because I forgot to put it back on the receiver and then when someone calls, I can’t answer. Now you can buy the retro payphone; I know it is in fact pink which makes me a little sad. Read The Full Story

I never actually had a Commodore 64 when I was younger (I was an Amstrad boy myself), but I still think that the computer is an icon of 80s design.  Still, not so useful lately in comparison to laptops - unless of course you hack it into some sort of C64 PDA! With the serial keyboard from a Jornarda PDA, an ever-handy PSOne LCD display and a variety of other useful bits, Petscii forum member 'jtwinters' built this 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 inch portable unit that can run either on external power or its own batteries. More photos after the cut - including one which emphasises just how small this hack is! Read The Full Story

I'm shamefully ignorant of early computers, although I can admire with an LED-appreciationists' eye the banks of flickering lights and glorious toggle switches.  So it's the aesthete in me that loves this Altair 8800, rather than the bemused engineer/programmer, lovingly crafted by Grant Stockly and sold in complete kit form.  One of the earliest "personal computers", the Altair was a modular design using a variety of add-on boards which meant advances in technology could be easily (relatively speaking) built-in. Stockly's kit, currently being sold primarily through eBay, consists of everything needed to put together a replica 8800 - from the casing, through a complete selection of all the chips and boards, to the silk-screened front panel with binary input switches and output LEDs.  All that's needed is to solder the parts together and plug it all in; Grant will even tweak your system back into working order, should you be a less-than-stellar engineer like me. Read The Full Story