Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

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The more I think about it, “Head Cleaner” is a great band name.
And “Play Both Sides” would be a great title for a German post-punk album.

ETA - I wrote this before I saw @Crashproof ’s post.

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You’re not alone in thinking that, Discogs says there are 16 bands with that name.

I remember seeing this one in the mid 90s:

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We had one of these at work to send layouts to our outputting bureau. Always flaky, it was more reliable to walk with a disk in your hot and sweaty.

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It was his dealings with Paige that inspired this quote:

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It wouldn’t be a proper 70s educational film without that flute music.

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Ah, yes. Here you can see it in action.

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That kind of reminds me of Merlin. I wonder if it was an inspiration for Merlin.

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The software histories were more interesting than I thought they would be.

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I’ve just seen this, and I can tell you that the Thompson Twins weren’t the first to do this. Chris Sievey (of The Freshies and Frank Sidebottom fame) had a single with a video game on the B side in 1983.

He made a video game with music on the B side a year later.

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