This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.
@mwichary @SecularJeffrey
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19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.
@mwichary Devil in your ear says it’s not too late for that.
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10. You could have a 1,000 tries, and you would never guess how VariTyper named its Helvetica knock-off.
@mwichary MegaRON?!
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17. More red computing.
needed thick polyester to stay warm in those 68F cooled rooms.
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18. This company is called G. O. GRAPHICS. Cute.
try as she might, she still can't make the bust light come on.
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21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.
office chair built like a monument..
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This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)
1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.
They look like elements from a tardis console, around 1977 or so.
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20. More cool keys from the Photon.
@mwichary Guessing this Photon machine creates film and "NO FLASH" is referring to a technique used for exposing halftones, and that there would also be a "NO BUMP" key as well.
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@mwichary hmmm bitsavers pretty much just has the brochure. archive.org has some manuals but they're for older, electromechanical devices.
@ireneista @mwichary
Hey, just today I was looking at some keycaps that included a bunch of Glasses
bonus caps. (As well as runes — for your Nordic layout?)I wondered what those were for
https://drop.com/buy/drop-mito-canvas-xda-custom-keycap-set
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5. Need a typeface fast? Call Type Express.
@mwichary the Netflix of type.
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9. Charles Darwin would have approved of Linoterm.
@mwichary “small” in this case is certainly of its time...
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10. You could have a 1,000 tries, and you would never guess how VariTyper named its Helvetica knock-off.
@mwichary that’s just Helvetica doing a Homer Simpson “Max Power” gig with sunglasses!
“Mega Ron”? Yeah sure, Helv, go home, you’re drunk.
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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.
@mwichary My eyes, they burn!
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13. Just this aesthetic.
@mwichary What’s the black tape thing at bottom left of last photo? Did they use ticker tape for sneakernet transfer?
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15. This cool drawing of a keyboard for a manual, with a lot of corrections and whiteouts (if you look closely).
@mwichary love me a good paste up job!
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16. Bad Boys (1995)
@mwichary I bet they’re swiping right in that photo!
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4. Both of these machines (Linotext MBK 500/600) are very cool-looking.
@mwichary
The section in your book on those gigantic text-compositing machines was really interestingAfter the lead-spewing Lynotype behemoths and before the desktop publishing revolution
And how they just got thrown in dumpsters and lost to history
️ So they didn’t fill up the computer museums
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20. More cool keys from the Photon.
@mwichary Is FLUSH R and FLUSH LEFT for toilets in different hemispheres?
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21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.
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19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.
@mwichary Devil in your ear, it's not too late
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