The Home Computer Hybrids: Atari, TI, and the FCC

It's a good thing that the FCC clamped down on RF emissions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to run computers near each other. A TRS-80 and a Milton Bradley Big Trak (a programmable toy tank) would, if near each other, both crash from RF interference.

RFI incompatibility is almost forgotten as a problem now. That did not happen by accident.

Dull title, but this is from the "Creatures of Thought" blog, which has constantly been really good.

(Also a bunch of stuff about steam engines, the industrial revolution, etc.)