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Feb 18, 2024 - If you want a reliable place to shop for groceries with unbeatable prices, you turn to Aldi. This German grocery ...

Chocolate and halva is a perfect flavor combination. And there is nothing better than homemade, fudge brownies swirled with tahini ...

Piroshki are a popular Russian pastry of filled buns that are either baked or fried. Most piroshki are made with ...

This entry in the MSX hall-of-fame is slightly unusual in that GoldStar is not a Japanese company, as nearly all MSX builders were, but Korean. With a style...

Any history of the early microcomputer industry would not be complete without a mention of VisiCalc - the first ever "killer app". Not only did...

This advert is for one of many single-board computers available at the time, but it's worth an entry because the company name is one of comparitively few...

Nov 5, 2025 - As documented by The New York Times, families across America tend to serve a Thanksgiving meal that speaks to their family’s ...

Not every food is ideal for tucking away in your freezer for a rainy, sick or snowy day. But chicken ...

Here's a rare advert from Zilog for its MCZ range of micros - everything from an entry-level floppy-disk-based model up to the MCZ 1/35 rack-mount machine...

Nov 18, 2025 - The easiest shakshuka recipe for a crowd. This sheet pan shakshuka is the perfect breakfast dish.

It's another advert aimed at OEMs rather than the end user, this time from Kontron Mikrocomputer GmbH of Echning, near Munich in what was West Germany....

Jan 23, 2024 - When I first moved to Israel around five years ago, there were no Mexican food restaurants, and really very little ...

[extra: hamish_dialup_1985.webp|A Nightingale modem in action in 1984 or 1985, connected to a BBC Micro]The mid-1980s - 1984 to 1986 in particular - were...

I worked at a local bakery called Sweet Teensy Bakery throughout high school, and this coffee cake was one of ...

Oct 10, 2025 - Eggplant isn’t easy to love. It can be bitter and may be among the kinds of food that appeal more ...

Apr 8, 2024 - Though my Grandma Snazzy, my mother’s mother, seemed to barely eat a thing (to this day, I am convinced she ...

A few years ago, before binge watching had really caught on, my husband and I heard of a new show called ...

[extra: MSI6800_pcw_1979-06.webp|The System 1 variant of the MSI 6800 on the front cover of Personal Computer World, June 1979]The MSI 6800, from Midwest...

Whilst there had already been a few computers produced by regular electronics companies, such as Heathkit with its H9, there's probably no other example...

On the face of it, this is yet another Motorola 6800-based system with an S-100 bus, however it's perhaps the micro which more than any other most closely...

Luckily for the incumbent micro manufacturers of the UK and the US, the Japanese - whose invasion had been feared since the late 1970s - were surprisingly late...

Winner of the award for most puzzling advertising campaign must surely go to Iotec, which for the best part of a year seemed to feature adverts all in black...

The ABC24 and ABC26 were Z80 micros which differed only in the size of floppy disk drive they offered - either 620K on dual 5¼" drives, or an impressive...

Onyx was formed in December 1978 by two former Zilog employees, Robert Marsh and Kip Myers, with some additional input from fellow former Zilog employee Doug...

After a few weeks of binge quiche-making and a brunch at Russ & Daughters, the Lower East Side Manhattan restaurant ...

Pre-dating the launch of home computers that came with and were optimised for mice - such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST - there was a phase of...

This classic falafel recipe is golden, crispy and delicious. Try Joan Nathan's easy falafel recipe for the ultimate vegan meal.

Sep 9, 2025 - My grandmother Rachel was a gifted cook. After moving as a young mother from Baghdad to Tel Aviv in 1943, ...

Possibly the funkiest-looking microcomputer ever built, the Orb from ABS Computers of Brighton came in one of eight possible colours, including orange which,...

The Type and Talk Speech Computer was built by Namal Peripherals of Gwydir Street in Cambridge, and distributed by the Cambridge Microcomputer Centre of...

I come from a family of hunters and gatherers, and the younger generations are no exception. My grandfather owned and ...

In the category of autumn challah flavors there is pumpkin challah and even sweet potato challah. But I wanted to ...

Alan Sugar sometimes claimed that Amstrad's early success was because it didn't try to crack the European or US market, a move which almost...

Jul 1, 2025 - This roast chicken recipe relies on tried and true techniques that ensure you’ll end up with a juicy chicken.

Aug 21, 2023 - Chraimeh is a classic recipe from Tunisian cuisine and a favorite among Israelis of all origins. This dish is served ...

These potato latkes are so good that posting the recipe alone is a mitzvah of the highest order. The Festival ...

The Flyer appears to have been manufactured by Tava USA Incorporated, a company which was previously known as Replitech and which had bought out the original...

Do you go bonkers for Big Macs, fantasize about Filet-o-Fish and marvel over Egg McMuffins? Does the sight of those ...

Soroc was founded in Anaheim, California, in 1975 by five ex-employees of Lear Siegler Incorporated (LSI), another terminal manufacturer. Various sources...

Sadly, this particular Gulfstream was nothing to do with the rarified world of luxury executive jets but was rather more prosaically a subsidiary of Canadian...

Wells American had started out as Intertec Data Systems, which had been famous in the late 1970s and early 1980s for its Superbrain twin-Z80-based all-in-one...

Nov 24, 2025 - When I was young, I always imagined my older self as someone who laid a linen tablecloth across a long ...

Designed entirely by Tatung UK, an offshoot of Taiwan's largest company, the Einstein was aimed vaguely at the business market, but with a Zilog Z80A...

Here's another also-ran in the micro stakes from yet another typewriter company - Olympia International. The curiously-named "People" was an...

It's perhaps stretching it a bit to assert that the launch of another IBM clone, albeit one of the first "legitimate" clones, was as significant...

I much prefer making dairy meals over meat meals, and making a dairy Shabbat dinner can be a fun change ...

Sep 18, 2024 - Forget everything you know about the American ideal of goulash — this is the real origin of the dish. It’s ...

Imagine had formed when programming wunderkind Eugene Evans and two other senior staff left well-known software house Bug-Byte, which had been famous for...

The Compucolor 8001 was an [!8080|Intel 8080-based] personal computer which upped the ante compared to other machines like the Cromemco and the IMSAI 8080 by...

Goupil - or more properly Societé de Micro-informatique et Telecommunications (SMT) Goupil - was a French company that had been established in 1979 and which...

Noval was founded in the summer of 1976 as a spinout of Gremlin Industries, a manufacturer of electronic arcade games. Its stated mission aim was to supply the...

Had it not been for one of The Register's great articles on one of the forgotten pioneers of the early computer scene, this advert from Bywood, a company...

Michael Dell started out at the age of 13 selling mail-order stamps, and by the time he was at High School he was earning some $17,000 a year selling newspaper...

A sharp and crumbly cheddar. Some soft and stinky goat cheese. An oozy and indulgent brie. These are the cheeses ...

The original BCL - Business Computers Limited - was formed in 1968 as a result of the merger of Systemation Ltd and Business Mechanisation Ltd. This company...

Dec 28, 2022 - In 2008, Sylvie Bigar, a food and travel writer based in New York City, approached her editor at (the now ...

Jul 19, 2023 - Growing up, we drank a lot of tea. Not just any tea. The only brand my mother served was Swee-Touch-Nee. ...

These macaron cheesecake bites combine crisp, chewy macarons with rich cheesecake filling for a fun, easy Shavuot dessert everyone will love.

In the summer of 1982, one-time Olympic chess player and former chess grandmaster David Levy, of Intelligent Software - a company best known for producing...

Spring has sprung, but it seems that some colder, wet weather has also returned for a bit. Perhaps its time ...

PolyMorphic had started out making expansion cards for the [#Altair 8800] - the micro launched in January 1975 that as well being the first affordable...

Up until the back end of the 1990s, the Modem was the only affordable way that people at home could connect to the Internet - and various other networks,...

Dec 23, 2024 - Latkes are far more popular during Hanukkah than donuts here in the U.S. While you can find latkes in the ...

George Morrow - the founder of Morrow Designs - was born in 1934 and earned a degree in physics from Stanford before going on to do a master's in...

The image above is adapted from a Wikimedia public-domain source MOS Technology was founded in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1969 by three former employees of...

On 83rd Street and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan, you can find two kosher restaurants in one location. By day, enjoy the ...

GEC - or General Electric Company plc - was a large British conglomerate with interests in defence, electronics, communications and engineering. It was founded...

Yom Kippur is one of the most, if not the most, important day in the Jewish calendar. And for many ...

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Keeping up with a tradition almost as old as advertising itself, the price shown isn't quite the price you pay as it doesn't include VAT or shipping,...

As those of us familiar with Sephardic cuisine know, there are often different names and spellings for similar dishes. When ...

If I asked you to tell me what first comes to mind when you think about South Carolina, chances are ...

The Boston area has one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the United States, and its smorgasbord of Jewish ...