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in the art stew diode. straight up “shorpenin it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s just say. my pencels.

who else sharpens their pencils like this

Abandoned. I loved the brickwork and the sharp shadows.

1968 Olivetti Valentine.

Interesting that 10 years on it was still recognized as being stylish, and now 60 years later, it’s eye-catching. Some things are timeless, to design something like that must give the artist an ever lasting high.

Or they could be using it as a joke. The man is writing a love letter. (Valentine - “I love you”)

(Also note they ended production in 1975).

MLMW #7, September 1978

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

I was at work and one of my coworkers (she’s in her late 30s) abruptly brought up a lady asking an AI questions like this on some vertical video platform. She thought it was enlightening and thought provoking.

It was literally just nonsense, the girl and the AI were just making stuff up together, each encouraging the other, compounding the stupidity. Exactly what you described here.

I was dumbfounded, I just nodded along to hit each dialogue option and go somewhere else. We’re not doing well..

Got any more VCF East photos?

You’ve likely already seen all the ones I had taken in your discord. All shot with a 50 mm, kind of square squeezed look. I go by a different name there though.

One of mine to add.

It’s not Unix, it’s Cromix! - Mike Loewen

VCF East XX

Oh interesting, I didn’t know about Multics.

Eternally upset I missed the public access Multics installation that apparently existed a few years ago before blipping off the face of the internet... who wants to start a new one with me?

Dude looks like a Sly Cooper villain

"do you want him to wear the little hat?"

"yes please"

I was carrying around a camera and 2 teens asked me to photograph them. I was like ok but how do you want to get the file from me. And they were like “?” “It doesn’t print?”

It’s a Canon Rebel T6i it doesn’t remotely resemble any printing or instant development film camera I’ve ever seen.

Yey, I love finding photos of mainframes in use from the archives of colleges. This is an IBM System/360 model 30. Their lower end of the System/360 range. Introduced in 1964 and shipped in 1965.

Initially this entire machine had the maximum memory of 64k. In the early ‘70s 3rd party manufacturers started to realize it was built to accommodate more (up to 128k, though just 32k upgrades cost near $40,000), so IBM offered options to upgrade the memory to 96k.

The 360 was created with the intent to be used with shops that had an IBM 1401 (introduced 1958). It could be configured with an optional emulator to run their existing software. Short sighted business then bought the machine configured with 16k as that was the 1401s maximum memory capacity, why would you need more, when the machine could be much much more capable at 64k. You could load DOS/360 to “partition” the machine for 2-3 concurrent jobs.

Computers in an accounting class at Ball State University, 1974.

I have an Omnibot 2000, but his arms are broken. I’ll fix it eventually. What’s really interesting is the black Omnibot with the stereo speakers on his shoulders, I never saw that model before.

These are great. I really like House’s pose and cigar.

House and Wilson keychain designs for my sister !! They’re graduating this year so I wanted to make them something special :D

Same idea.

This is what the future will look like? I can’t wait.

Home Office Life (2001)

Elliot in the video game Stardew Valley liked me back so naturally I don’t want to play the game anymore. Very healthy approach to relationships.

True color is 32 bit.

Apparently in Japan they had access to this link cable that allowed the PSone to use a cell phone as a modem, turning the console into an E-Machine, doing basic E-Mail, web browsing, etc. A few games supported it as well. A lot of online sites call it the i-Mode adapter or say that i-mode is a PlayStation service, but i-Mode is just an ISP from Japan. Some sources mention that it was only compatible with the PSone and not the PlayStation, but I can’t find why that would be.

Edge Magazine UK August 2000 issue featuring Sony PSone w/ LCD screen peripheral 2000

This is romance, everything else is a vague imitation.

Third base is getting stabbed in the stomach and slumping forward with your chin on their shoulder and blood dripping from your mouth

1973 RCA XL-100 spotted (chassis GS-830).

We’ll never know why (or how) there’s a TV hooked up to a mid 60s Univac 1108. I’m so sad.

Univac used the Uniscope 300 as their foray into video terminals. What we see here kind of reminds me of the IBM 2260 series. Like the 2260, there has to be a cabinet somewhere generating the video for that setup. A 300 is considerably more sophisticated than a 2260.

Very nice. Okay, I just spoke with him because I didn’t want to give you the wrong information. The first machine was a Photon machine, it would have been the one built into a desk, the second machine was a CompuGraphic, now most of the machines you see online are just headliners, don’t ask me how that works, but there was more to it than just the desk and keyboard part. It would have been a large cabinet that accepted paper tape to go through the motions of setting everything up on the film. The last machine was a Xylogic, I can’t find any information on the machine, I can only get a tape controller card for a PDP 11.

Here is a website that was pretty informative for what the process may have looked like.

All of these slices of pizza are borzoi shaped.

(via Instagram)

If the pendulum had been peak swing the other way this illustration would have made me upset.

Illustration by Seiichi Hiyashi, 1981, from “A Japan Woman,” published by Sanrio.

There’s an alarming lack of fan art of antiquated typesetting machines. My grandfather’s father owned a publishing house and would have purchased one of the first photo typesetting machines. He told me about it, I can’t recall the model, but it was rudimentary still, requiring paper tape for storage and was integrated into the desk.

My experience with my autoimmune disease. Quite literally what my first doctor’s medical opinion was.

“Hmm your body is still eating itself, that’s not great. Anyway come back in 6 months 👍”

Doctors are like: ughhhhh. You're confusing. Come back if you die

Good morning. My mouth tastes like blood and my mind is in a state of sentimentality.

That’s not just any pinball machine. That’s a Williams 1992 “Fish Tales”. Completing the joke that they are fishing.