Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Well his fifth single off White Ladder was Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Latest missive from New Commodore. Just wondering about that first sentence, after seeing this posted on here last week... Happy to be proved wrong. Also, my name is still not 'Bins'. 061
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026“An incredible endorsement of our vision”; so incredible we felt the need to send out a schmaltzy email to defend it and have since reduced the spec, unbundled headphones and dropped the price in response to feedback. This is a definition of “incredible endorsement” I was previously unaware of. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Honestly this website is unusable on a phone. Ads crowd out everything. God knows why I am being offered implants. Not even close to that age. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026These fellas. Braun industrial design is art. The calculator especially. I have no idea why, it just resonates. I’m aware that Apple’s iPhone calculator is an homage to the Braun design, but in person really hits the right notes. And that Braun amplifier/radio is just… I need one in my life. 130
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Plenty of Apple and Sony there too and very handsome they were too; but what surprised me was that it wasn’t what I was impressed by the most… 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Never seen a Grid in the flesh and loved how futuristic it felt, despite being ancient. The BBC’s inclusion was also a bit of surprise, as was the Nokia N-Gage. I always quite like the idea, if not the execution. And of course the physical media. Who don’t love a Zip disk? 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Loving the walls of objects. The current range of generic products really have lost that certain something… The IBM Thinkpad with the folding keyboard really is quite smart when you see it up close. And the Sinclair Executive calculator is an unexpected thing of beauty. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Your actual dumb phone. Designed for a time when your phone wasn’t your wallet or bank branch. Can’t think why this resonates this week. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026At the Design Museum… and a wall of design classics… 030
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This really didn’t have me expecting much, as once an Amiga brand deal was ruled out, it was pretty obvious the new product would be a phone. This kind of thing does NOT smack of a serious tech company. This is how you sell an off-brand energy drink to teenagers, not <cough> $700 phones to GenXers. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Right on cue! Sure Autocorrect, just change your to you. Why not? You know best, right? 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026And while we’re bemoaning the omission of Cushing… 1174
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It’s over 31 degrees in the spare room, sat in front of my work laptop on my day off. The fans I have going don’t make much of a difference and what’s more… 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Is it the inherent superiority of Marmite as a spread on toast? No? Oh well. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026And now, we move onto “liars”. Father Peter Sorenson. Father Desmond Clerents. Remember him? 030
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The Mac Studio was hard enough to buy if you wanted local storage inside the machine; not due to scarcity, but due to the incredible price gouging long before AI sucked supply out of the market. 512Gb of SSD on a power user machine was ridiculous. £600 to upgrade to 2TB - seriously? 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Look what they’ve done to my beautiful boy. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Used to marvel that the schematics for a Commodore Vic 20 and C64 were readily available. Just there for you to copy if you wanted. Bet you if you sent off for the bits and built your own, you’d have been recruited by this guy to join his crack team of scientists… 120
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The Sneaker Pimps got there first, but no-one likes to mention it. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Return of the Jedi : Death Star Battle on the Spectrum. As a kid who loved the films even though everyone else by 1985 would groan at “Oh not Star Wars *again* when looking at the Christmas TV listings, I loved it. Not the best Star Wars game, but I still enjoyed it when it was all I had! 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Or to put it another way. We sold it because it wouldn’t make us enough money. 220
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Just read the sad news that Commodore engineer Hedley Davis has died. I always remembered his name courtesy of The Deathbed Vigil. The silly “Memorial Disk Drive” summed up what it was like to work in IT in the 80s & 90s. Passionate people who really gave a monkeys about what they were making. RIP 131
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Hello and welcome to my unboxing video 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The reboot we may not want, but the one we deserve. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026It’s in my National Record of Achievement next to my red swimming badge, that certificate I got for 100% attendance for the summer term 1989 and the letter of reference the newsagent wrote for me when I left my paper round. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I’ll take your Munch Bunch and raise you the finest shoving-not-fighting that ITC money can buy. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Sinclair’s cover sold the game far better… 2173
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Twelve months from now I believe my family and I will have made a fortune and not still be selling stuff from the back of a yellow Regal. 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Orange Album cover. Got to give Very some love. Especially the first iteration that I never bought when I had the chance and have regretted ever since. BUT I did love the “further listening” release. 120
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Predator 2. I’m not going to shut up about it until you show it! 🤣 140
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Bit unfair on Purves. He always came across as quite a civilised chap. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I can’t really say I am that surprised. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 09/11/2025If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it. 020
