{"id":4084,"date":"2019-04-01T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:11:19","slug":"april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4084","title":{"rendered":"They thought they were being funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcpartpicker.com\/b\/Vh29TW\">Liquid cooling<\/a> of ICs? With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.co.uk\/core-i9-7900x-overclock-ln2,review-34376-7.html\">liquid nitrogen<\/a>? A Wrist Computer? (OK, we don&#8217;t have ones powered by body heat&#8230; yet). A smiley as part of the ASCII character set?<\/p>\n<p>Surely none of that can really happen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RadioElectronicsApril1984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RadioElectronicsApril1984.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RadioElectronicsApril1984-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Radio Electronics April 1984.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:281,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pcpartpicker.com\\\/b\\\/Vh29TW&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240806143812\\\/https:\\\/\\\/pcpartpicker.com\\\/b\\\/Vh29TW&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 18:57:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-06 19:30:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 02:58:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-18 01:59:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 22:13:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 22:13:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:282,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.tomshardware.co.uk\\\/core-i9-7900x-overclock-ln2,review-34376-7.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.tomshardware.com\\\/uk\\\/core-i9-7900x-overclock-ln2,review-34376-7.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid cooling of ICs? With liquid nitrogen? A Wrist Computer? (OK, we don&#8217;t have ones powered by body heat&#8230; yet). A smiley as part of the ASCII character set? Surely none of that can really happen. Radio Electronics April 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}