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Late 20th Century Aesthetics: Casting images of Old Tech/ Design / Fashion / Media Works/ Computer Culturescape, and more. DM @poppel if you want to cast in this channel.
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence·2 days ago
The Pilot ACE, 1950s
One of the most beautiful computers ever made. It was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom - at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the early 1950s. It used mercury delay line memory, which is two wavelengths short of alchemy.
At the amazing Docubyte
https://www.docubyte.com/works/guide-to-computing/
One of the most beautiful computers ever made. It was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom - at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the early 1950s. It used mercury delay line memory, which is two wavelengths short of alchemy.
At the amazing Docubyte
https://www.docubyte.com/works/guide-to-computing/
Triadex Muse, 1972
This was a proto-generative sequencer/synthesiser
'a note generator is controlled by a long term, quasi-periodic function which is in turn generated by applying digital feedback' - quoted from the patent for the device, which I discovered was invented by none other than Edward Fredkin and Marvin L Minsky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5L3kmzTFE
This was a proto-generative sequencer/synthesiser
'a note generator is controlled by a long term, quasi-periodic function which is in turn generated by applying digital feedback' - quoted from the patent for the device, which I discovered was invented by none other than Edward Fredkin and Marvin L Minsky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5L3kmzTFE
The PBC design for the The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor. It was a small 6502-based single-board computer developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc (later Commodore Semiconductor Group) and launched in 1976.
The system eventually ran Tiny BASIC, before that programming was done in Assembly language.
The system eventually ran Tiny BASIC, before that programming was done in Assembly language.
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail·12:02 30/04/2025
From Minis et Micros magazine (1984)
glitched philips chromium cassette tape ad (1978)
https://i.postimg.cc/Zn6Cmkp3/philips-chromium-cassette-tape-ad-1978.gif
https://i.postimg.cc/Zn6Cmkp3/philips-chromium-cassette-tape-ad-1978.gif
Workstations at Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, USA, 1988.
From International Interiors - Lance Knobel (1988)
From International Interiors - Lance Knobel (1988)
So I fell down a bit of a retro computing rabbit hole today after @stc started a quote-thread in /abandonware about the first computer we learned to code on. During some related research on early computers I came across this handsome fellow today.
The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
https://www.ibm.com/history/selective-sequence-calculator
The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
https://www.ibm.com/history/selective-sequence-calculator
The EAI PACE TR-48 analogue computer.
Tell me, who does not like the look of a computer that resembles the close kin of a modular synthesiser such as the the Arp 2500?
Tell me, who does not like the look of a computer that resembles the close kin of a modular synthesiser such as the the Arp 2500?
Technics historically handled marketing in-house, and never attributed this campaign to anyone specifically, but this was the vibe they were bringing during this era.
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail·12:44 18/04/2025
Modgraph GX-100 Graphics Terminal (1982)
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indiorobot🎩
@indiorobot·04:35 20/03/2025
Sony CFS-C7 (1982)
FM/AM stereo, cassette, analog drum machine, chord generator.
FM/AM stereo, cassette, analog drum machine, chord generator.
The Incredible Machine (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2BWLZqA
'The Bell Labs 'Graphic 1' computer system consisted of a Digital Equipment Corporation 'PDP-5' computer coupled with input devices such as the 'Type 370' light pen and Teletype Corporation 'Teletype Model 33' keyboard, married to a Digital Equipment Corporation 'Type 340' precision incremental display backed by 36-bit Ampex 'RVQ' buffer memory capable of storing 4096 'words'. The resolution on the monitor was 1024×1024.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2BWLZqA
'The Bell Labs 'Graphic 1' computer system consisted of a Digital Equipment Corporation 'PDP-5' computer coupled with input devices such as the 'Type 370' light pen and Teletype Corporation 'Teletype Model 33' keyboard, married to a Digital Equipment Corporation 'Type 340' precision incremental display backed by 36-bit Ampex 'RVQ' buffer memory capable of storing 4096 'words'. The resolution on the monitor was 1024×1024.'
Cap + Shoes — What a combo 🤯
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Eduxdux
@eduxdux·11:56 19/02/2025
Very interesting see this 'Computer cap' a 1996 prototype made by Stephen Peart, Vent
This book is
"Design culture now"
- Donald Albrecht | Ellen Lupton | Steven Skov Holt
This book is
"Design culture now"
- Donald Albrecht | Ellen Lupton | Steven Skov Holt
I usually can't relate to portraiture in digital or generative art. If it has been been made on an old antiquated teletype machine, though, it's more than OK. Call me old fashioned.
By way of Teletype Model 33 > https://x.com/33asr
By way of Teletype Model 33 > https://x.com/33asr
