All Of These Slices Of Pizza Are Borzoi Shaped.

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?

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.

Fire escape. There were some pulleys and weights suspended above that looked neat.

Take me apart and put me back together.

See the wires and circuits sparwled out on the floor.

As you begin this endeavor

Be sure to be clever

They don’t make the parts anymore.

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

Home Office Life (2001)

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

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.

el oh el

rawr ex dee

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