{"id":8833,"date":"2018-12-26T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=8833"},"modified":"2018-12-26T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:55:15","slug":"robotmans-cheap-classic-computer-calendar-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=8833","title":{"rendered":"Robotman\u2019s Cheap Classic Computer Calendar 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again!\u00a0 Time to chuck out the old bent-up, scratched &amp; damaged year and replace it with a brand new, shiny year &#8211; replete with that impressive, plasticky smell of polyvinyl chloride, assorted benzenes and aldehydes!<\/p>\n<p>And what better way to commemorate the turning of the calendar than with a calendar that commemorates old and obsolete computer hardware!<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s edition features the following 8-bit and 16-bit computers of yore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January &#8211; Commodore Pet (1977)<\/li>\n<li>February &#8211; Exidy Sorcerer (1978)<\/li>\n<li>March &#8211; Sharp MZ (1979)<\/li>\n<li>April &#8211; Acorn Atom (1980)<\/li>\n<li>May &#8211; BBC Micro (1981)<\/li>\n<li>June &#8211; Dragon 32 (1982)<\/li>\n<li>July &#8211; Apple Lisa (1983)<\/li>\n<li>August &#8211; NEC PC-100 (1983)<\/li>\n<li>September &#8211; IBM PCjr (1984)<\/li>\n<li>October &#8211; Atari ST (1985)<\/li>\n<li>November &#8211; Commodore Amiga (1985)<\/li>\n<li>December &#8211; Apple IIgs (1986)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may have even heard of some of these!\u00a0 Chances are you don&#8217;t have fond memories of using the Exidy Sorcerer, or even the infamous but innovative Apple Lisa.\u00a0 But if you&#8217;re like me, then you do have fond memories of Amiga games (or even Atari ST or Apple IIgs games, if you&#8217;re some kind of weirdo).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Robotman%E2%80%99s-Cheap-Classic-Computer-Calendar-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enjoy this free calendar for 2019<\/a>, and have a happy new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again!\u00a0 Time to chuck out the old bent-up, scratched &amp; damaged year and replace it with a brand new, shiny year &#8211; replete with that impressive, plasticky smell of polyvinyl chloride, assorted benzenes and aldehydes! And what better way to commemorate the turning of the calendar than with a calendar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[223,537,154],"class_list":["post-8833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-video-games","tag-apple","tag-calendar","tag-commodore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8837,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}