BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Life in the northern wastes of Walsall
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Local quiz 1
  • Local quiz 2
  • Mylee Billingham, rest in peace
  • Walsall Wood 1871 Inclosure

Tag Archives: old computing

Back to the future…

Posted on May 15, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

While we’re in a 1980’s mood, this week I noticed that a remarkable project from the period had been rescued from potential oblivion and saved for the nation. Way back in 1986, when I was generally being a teenage geek … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr

Like this:

Like Loading…
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Council, Walsall Wood stuff | Tagged AIV, BBC Micro, Belbury, Brownhills, Brownhills Carnival, Brownhills local history, Brownhills Market, Canal, Clayhanger, Computek 87, Domesday, Domesday disc, Domesday project, Domesday Project reloaded, Fiona Gooding, JH Poole, Laserdisc, Local History, maps, Midwich, multimedia, New Photos, old computing, Ordnance Survey, Shire Oak, Shire Oak School, Staffordshire, Tara Fallon, Walsall | 5 Comments
  • RSS feed RSS - Posts

    RSS feed RSS - Comments

  • Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 960 other subscribers
  • Search the blog:

  • Top Posts & Pages

    • Shop ’til you drop
    • Mere vandalism
    • Ryders Mere fishery plan withdrawn
    • The school of 64
    • A hole in the history
  • Archives

  • RSS #365daysofbiking Journal

    • #365daysofbiking Station to station: Left baggage
    • #365daysofbiking Slurry up
    • #365daysofbiking Season of the sunset
    • #365daysofbiking Don’t go
    • #365daysofbiking What makes this mine
    • #365daysofbiking Bridge to my heart
    • #365daysofbiking Shades of grey, shades of blue
    • #365daysofbiking On the skyline
  • Activism

    • Bad Science
    • Chasewater Wildlife
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
  • Blogs & Stuff I like

    • All About Lichfield
    • Burntwood Family History
    • Chasewaterstuff's Rail Blog
    • Clayhanger Marsh
    • Hammerwich Weather
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
    • Lichfield Lore
    • Mad Old Baggage
    • Oakparkrunner's Blog
    • PheaseyViews
    • Pigblog
    • PubBlog
    • Rachel Creative
    • Tamworth Time Hikes
    • The Plastic Hippo
    • The Yam Yam
  • Cycle stuff

    • Crazy guy on a bike
    • Sheldon Brown
    • The Bike Show
    • Yehuda Moon
  • Funny stuff

    • Doonesbury
    • XKCD
    • Yehuda Moon
  • Local History

    • All About Lichfield
    • Brownhills on Wikipedia
    • Burntwood Family History
    • Chasewaterstuff's Rail Blog
    • David Hodgkinson
    • Lichfield Lore
    • Oakparkrunner's Blog
    • Pubs of Brownhills
    • Sue Lote's Walsall Foreign
    • Tamworth Time Hikes
  • Local press

    • The Express and Star
  • Local sites

    • All About Lichfield
    • Burntwood Online
    • Clayhanger Marsh
    • Hammerwich Weather
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
    • Lichfield Live
    • Lichfield Lore
    • PheaseyViews
    • The Yam Yam
    • WV11 (Wednesfield)
  • Urban Exploration

    • Mechanised
    • Subterranea Britannica
    • urbex|uk
  • Blog Stats

    • 7,711,367 hits
  • Recent tracks

    Brownhills Bob
    Brownhills Bob
    BrownhillsBob
    377,128 Tracks
    Girlfriend
    Girlfriend
    Matthew Sweet
    10 minutes ago
    Come a Little Closer
    Come a Little Closer
    Cage the Elephant
    14 minutes ago
    Two Stones In My Pocket
    Two Stones In My Pocket
    Neil Halstead
    18 minutes ago
    Knifefish
    Knifefish
    oxis
    20 minutes ago
    GØD
    GØD
    KiNG MALA
    24 minutes ago
    Colours Fly
    Colours Fly
    The Smile
    29 minutes ago
    Don and Dewey
    Don and Dewey
    It's A Beautiful Day
    34 minutes ago
    The Marriage of Coyote Woman
    The Marriage of Coyote Woman
    All Them Witches
    40 minutes ago
    Happiness Is Just Around the Bend
    Happiness Is Just Around the Bend
    Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
    46 minutes ago
    Still...You Turn Me On
    Still...You Turn Me On
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    49 minutes ago
  • Recent Comments

    Christine on Gerald Reece’s Chasewate…
    Christine on A Chasewater childhood
    Philip Ward on Act of Remembrance for those l…
    Beth Cooksey on Do you remember the Wheatsheaf…
    Kevin Wilford on Mount Zion Sunday School Anniv…
BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Powered by WordPress.com.
%d