All of Paulee's Vintage Computer Articles

It's no secret that I love old computers (and their musical uses), which means I've written about them a fair number of times. For the benefit of new readers (or those with poor memories!) I've decided to link them all together under one article - that way, you can dip in and out as you like :D

The 1980's Era:

From primitive beeps and boops, to sophisticated digital sound playback - the 80's was a time of real innovation in consumer electronic musical devices!

Computer Music Chronicles: Audio on 1982's ZX Spectrum - including a few interesting oddities

Computer Music Chronicles, The 80's: Acorn Music 500 Synthesizer - a 16 oscillator beast!

RIP Thomas Kurtz: Co-creator of BASIC - remembering a highly musical language.

The Fifty Quid Fairlight From 1987 - RAM's "Music Machine"

Computer Music Chronicles, The 80's: CX5M - When Yamaha made computers!

The CX5 Tapes: 1984 MSX Songs Unearthed - Music from the CX5m

40 Years of Paula - The Amiga Sound Chip - A celebration of Amiga sound

The 68000 CPU turns 45 - A chip that powered a generation of music machines.

The 1990's Era

Seeing huge expansion in available CPU power & memory; sampling, synthesis and sonic manipulation reached new heights during this decade.

Computer Music Chronicles: The 90's pt.1 - Atari ST & Amiga

Computer Music Chronicles: The 90's pt.2 - The IBM PC

Computer Music Chronicles: The 90's pt.3 - Apple Macintosh

Computer Music Chronicles: The Amiga as a Guitar Pedal - Real-time Amiga guitar effects!

Which Amiga for Retro Music Production? - Helping you decide :D

Why Use Old Computers for Music? - Your thoughts!

Modern Era / General Interest

Computer Music Chronicles: A New ZX Spectrum - Retro Game's "The Spectrum" emulation device.

Computer Music Chronicles: Modern Chiptune Synthesizers pt.1

Computer Music Chronicles: Modern Chiptune Synthesizers pt.2 -  8 & 16-bit sounds in modern instruments!

I hope you enjoy reading these articles as much as I did researching and writing them. Thanks and see you next time!

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