Most of us appreciate it when enterprising entrepeneurs go out of their way to make new products for us to enjoy on our vintage consoles.  H...

In the late 1970s, the handheld electronic game was born with Mattel Auto Race.  More games like Football, Baseball, Basketball and Soccer f...

When I started this blog in 2010, the first thing that came to my mind to write about was my love of the IBM Model M keyboard.   http://nerd...

There exists a phenomenon called false memory.  These are memories which a person sincerely believes are true yet can objectively be shown t...

In the United States and Europe, if you wanted to save a game on your NES, you generally had two options.  If the game supported password sa...

The Famicom was constructed with a feature which was not available to the NES.  The Famicom always sent its internal audio to the cartridge ...

When I have talked about the Tandy 1000s in the past, and I know it has been a while, I have focused my discussions on the Tandys that were ...

I have previously discussed both of these sound device families previous blog entries.  The Yamaha IMFC and FB-01 is discussed here : http:/...