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What’s old is new again

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“HP Reimagines the Desk for the Future of Work” shouts the headline on the HP website. The tech giant has ‘reimagined’ the desktop PC with a:

“Unique, keyboard-based form factor”.

They are talking about the HP EliteBoard AI PC, which is a computer in a keyboard:

I became officially old when I started noticing cyclical events and ideas rebranded, rehashed and suggested as “new”.

Anyone who was around in the 80s knows that a computer in a keyboard is absolutely nothing new:

Amstrad CPC 464 6128 and 664 computers owned by Simon Green

Do you remember it feeling strange when the computer was separate from the keyboard? Just comment below!

And if you want to see more reimagining of computers, then join us in June at the UKAG first ever Amstrad meetup. 

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The Retro Zone: Lake District Nostalgia for Amstrad Fans

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If you are on holiday in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK, the Lake District, it’s well worth a visit to The Retro Zone, a collection of 70s and 70s nostalgia.

UKAG founding members Simon Green and Jo Cook enjoyed wandering around and talking to the owners about their personal memories from the decades many of us grew up in.

Simon Green and the CPC 464 at The Retro Zone.

It’s peak 70s/80s microcomputing nostalgia, instant “I had that” or, more often, “I wanted that” feeling, and a museum full of memory-triggering kit from the home computer boom.

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