"Living in the 90s is all about convenience -- TV dinners, remote controls, automatic cars, automatic cat-feeding bowls and delay-action plant food."
let& #39;s forget powerpoint and keynote or whatever and go back to this.
"Psychedelic Cat" /// Patriotic Motif
Two stills from "Using Computer Graphics as a Medium
for Artistic Expression: A Portfolio of Explorations" Both created with a "cybernetic crayon."
Byte (Dec 1976)
Two stills from "Using Computer Graphics as a Medium
for Artistic Expression: A Portfolio of Explorations" Both created with a "cybernetic crayon."
Byte (Dec 1976)
This was the exact aesthetic of all the electronics in the factory my dad worked when I was a kid. Down to the instruction binder.
More Ted Nelson for @niftynei
Southwest Technical Products Corporation& #39;s logo is a kind of industrial modernism that we& #39;ve mostly left behind.
This is an incredible ad. I love the case. I love the SF font, I love the background. It& #39;s an appeal to three different kinds of late 1970s US masculinities. (Feb 1977)
This computer was UNASHAMED to be American
"The 6800 will never win any beauty prizes. It is like the Model T and the DC-3: not pretty, but beautiful in function."
"The 6800 will never win any beauty prizes. It is like the Model T and the DC-3: not pretty, but beautiful in function."
the flame gradient background really brings the computer& #39;s whole "casino obelisk" look together?
I& #39;m always saying this.
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"BASIC: The handle for the tool"
What I find interesting about this ad is the uses of tool affordances as synonyms for affordances of BASIC. Doing a lot of work to define programming as masculine here.
1977
What I find interesting about this ad is the uses of tool affordances as synonyms for affordances of BASIC. Doing a lot of work to define programming as masculine here.
1977
"Beyond state-of-the-art capabilities, handsomely housed in a fine piece of functional furniture." 1977
Another POLY 88 ad. 1977
I especially like when these old ads go to great pains to domesticate the personal computer.
I especially like when these old ads go to great pains to domesticate the personal computer.
Another domesticated personal computer setup from PolyMorphic Systems. 1977.
"It& #39;s like adding a room to your brain!"
And this guy& #39;s shirt (or robe????) is just wild.
"It& #39;s like adding a room to your brain!"
And this guy& #39;s shirt (or robe????) is just wild.
Most of the PolyMorphic System ads I& #39;ve seen in Byte from this era were aimed at home users. But here& #39;s one aimed at small business.
Computerized primary election returns, 1977. (Unlike the Iowa Caucus app, it seemed to have worked.)
Berkeley& #39;s own North Star Computers. 1977.
July 1985
A company I worked for in the 2000s still had probably 40 of these in a closet from the mid-1980s, never unboxed.
A company I worked for in the 2000s still had probably 40 of these in a closet from the mid-1980s, never unboxed.
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Byte, July 1985.
"The combination of News/Retrieval and Dow Jones Software makes personal investment decisions easier by giving you a clear, organized picture of the facts."
stonks, baby!
"The combination of News/Retrieval and Dow Jones Software makes personal investment decisions easier by giving you a clear, organized picture of the facts."
stonks, baby!
This company was just around the corner from the factory my dad worked at. There was a big tech corridor in Gwinnett county (Scientific Atlanta, Peachtree Tech, etc) that I& #39;d like to do some work on, eventually.
Screenshot from a review of Superbase, an end-user focused desktop database program (Amiga World July/August 1987)
When you need to carve into some guy& #39;s six pack on your Amiga or Mac. (Amiga World, September/October 1987)
Illustration from an article on implementations of BASIC for Amiga. (Amiga World, November/December 1987)