Catalogue retailer Argos has digitised all their catalogues since 1975 and put them online showing off old retro technology

While this contains a cross-section of over four decades’ styles, fads, and ephemera, it also gives the browser a fascinating look at a host of retrotechnology from a contemporary viewpoint rather than through the rose-tinted glasses of 2019. It's pages full of typewriters, calculators, cassette players, old computers, slide rules, CB radios, TV games, and office and home equipment.

The post at https://hackaday.com/2019/11/16/the-book-of-dreams-brings-back-all-your-memories/ does contain some quick links to interesting items.

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The retro-facing side of British social media has been abuzz for the last few days with a very neat piece of marketing form the catalogue retailer Argos: they’ve digitised all their catalogue…

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