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Atari Lynx

By on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | No Comments

The Lynx was a colour handheld game console that was released in 1989 – in fact it was the first colour one of its kind. For the techncially minded, the Lynx used a 65C02 CPU, which was part of the 6502 8-bit family. But it also used a 16-bit graphics chip to achieve all the [...]

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Retro iPhone Cover

By on Sunday, January 30th, 2011 | No Comments

I have to laugh at this. I was glad to get rid of my brick a longggg time ago but it seems it has returned to haunt. For people that weren’t lucky(?) enough to experience the size of mobile phones in the 80s (I’ll leave the exorbitant running costs for another post), the mobilephone massif [...]

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Sony Discman

By on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Sony Discman was a portable CD player that took over from where the Walkman left off. Released to the masses in November 1984, it took the world by storm but I remember that there wasn’t a huge range of CDs to pick from – if you were a David Bowie fan there you were [...]

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A new theme for Only The 80s?

By on Friday, July 31st, 2009 | No Comments

I’m currently looking for a new theme for the site. When I initially created it, it was on the list of ‘to do’ things, but I never got around to it (sound familiar?). In the meantime, if anyone would like to design me a new theme for the site, please leave a comment at the [...]

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