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53 years ago today, Atari released Pong
Developed by Al Alcorn, he installed the prototype machine at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, CA. A week later, the owner called to report it was broken. When Al went in to fix it he found that the coin box was jammed full
#pong #atari #arcade #1970s
Moss (adventure game) or Just Dance VR!
A brown triangular prism. The top side is used to for the triangular top-loading cartridges (this cartridge has Road Race, Tennis, and Quick Draw). The facing side is the pinball interface, with two paddles, a rotary switch, 'Slam Left', 'Slam Right', a skill selector, a power switch, and a reset button. The far side is a racing interface, with steering wheel and gear selector. The right side is shooting game interface, with a realistic looking sidearm and three buttons in holes. The interface panels alternate woodgrain and faux metal.
The 1977 Coleco Telstar Arcade answered the question, "What if a game console looked like a Wild West take on the TARDIS console?"
Halloween costume of Helly R standing in an elevator.
Reaching out to press a button inside an elevator.
The work is mysterious and important #Severance
The cover to the book, "Writing Your Own Program: Creating A Database: Adventure Game." Each line is in its own font. The computer (a black affair with rainbow keys" depicts a scuba diver swimming, handcuffs in hand, as it is attacked by a giant cross octopus; the painted octopus is literally bursting out of the monitor. A tiny little banner in the corner states: "For Commodore 64 And Apple IIe Computers"
Man, 80s computer books made even non-relational databases look fun. (Source.)
I loved doing this Q&A with @histoftech.bsky.social on the end of AOL dial-up 🌏…☎️💻
I gave a talk about my paper last month with this as the title slide. Can you tell I recently watched #Murderbot? 🔭 #Exoplanets
This is amazing!
My fav live 🖤
Vessel of Sleep Token with his arms held wide as he strikes a pose during Granite.
Sleep Token 📷 First Horizon Coliseum
A full page photo of two computers, side by side; dense ad copy down below. The left computer has a towering 1:5 ratio monitor; the right computer has a squat 4:3 monitor. The left computer reads in vector font: "I'm a Toshiba HX-10. I've got the best bits from every other home computer..." And then it goes on for many hundreds of words about its features, comparing itself favorably to the Commodore 64, the BBC Micro, the Acorn Electron, and the Oric Atmos. The right computer, a not-so disguised Acorn, reads: "Wow. With a specification list like that, no wonder you've got 64K memory."
"If you want a computer that won't be obsolete in a few years, buy an MSX. If you want one of the best-selling MSX computers in Japan, buy a Toshiba HX10." (Source.)
Text reads, “The following are excerpts from a conversation between Robby Garner’s 1998 Loebner Prize Competition in Sydney, Australia While Albert did not merit the $100,000 grand prize, to be bestowed on the first computer whose responses are indistinguishable from a human’s, the chatterbot did win first place for ‘most human computer.’ To disguise its identity from the judges, the chatterbot used the name Jim Lewis.” The conversation between the Judge and the chatterbot is then featured.
How to Send a Bot Off on a Rant? Just Mention Star Trek (The New York Times, 1999)
A student wearing a UVA Recreation logo listens to a lecture.
Four students listening to a lecture with their laptops out.
Two students with UVA hats on look on at a lecture being given.
Happy first day of classes, Hoos! 🧡💙 #UVA #DataScience
This is great!
Photograph on Fuji KM-2 on Skycards with 5,990 XP rarity displayed
Card of Fuji KM-2. First flown in 1962.
Somehow pulled a Fuji KM-2 on Skycards this weekend
AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet after 34 years on September 30
Quote from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that reads, “He entered the elevator and together they moved nearer to god.”
Mark S. going up in the elevator.
Quote from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that reads, “A Mercerite sensed evil without understanding it.”
Irv, Helly and Dylan look at Helly’s computer screen.
Close enough welcome back Mercerism
Three years ago, @davidagranoff.bsky.social discussed parallels between Severance and the works of Philip K. Dick. Now he turns to season two:
#Severance
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A magazine page that reads, “Dune, Here is the moon is your friend, the sun your enemy. The painting features the sandworm and beautiful nighttime desert scenery.
A large painting the features the sandworm, and a caption with paintings below that reads, “Out the haze came sandworms, a massed wall of them, each with troops of Fremen riding to attack.”
More paintings, the Baron on one side. And other, a bleak desert scene. It is nightfall, a green hue casts its shadow on soldiers on the Sardaukar.
A painting of Paul riding atop of a sandworm.
DUNE paintings by John Schoenherr | Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 2 (1981)
We're delighted to reveal the cover for @zanzjan.bsky.social's Ode to the Half-Broken: a new hopepunk novel following a robot reckoning with their past and choosing a new future 🤖🌱
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Jupiter and Io from Voyager 2
Jupiter and Io from Voyager 2 on June 25, 1979.
![Star Trek The Original Series scene. Spock is onboard the Enterprise and shown holding a terrifying alien creature. A MONSTER! (The creature is a small dog, probably some kind of terrier, wearing costume of extra fur and a unicorn horn headband)
Closed caption reads, "[music]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i6ocendj65mmddfndihajsky/bafkreiblzxzgi7h65itrlmdpj365arpdb2ah5kfmqmt7vgomxhidtv7rlu)
Star Trek The Original Series scene. Spock is onboard the Enterprise and shown holding a terrifying alien creature. A MONSTER! (The creature is a small dog, probably some kind of terrier, wearing costume of extra fur and a unicorn horn headband) Closed caption reads, "[music]"
A splash page from the October 1993 issue of Compute magazine. Floating in a vaporwave plane, in the center of a piece of graph paper, a giant ebony floating head is quadrated off; but is missing the pieces in the center. Around the head is the number 4, a triangle, the symbol for pi, a mouse cursor, and various lines of navigation. Behind the head is a sunset. Into the head's open hole flies a microchip, a semicirclular prism, a pole, and a chessboard.
"Paul, we're doing an article about data compression techniques. We just need something that illustrates compressing data." "Say no more, Cliff."
If you missed it, there's a new Murderbot short story at: reactormag.com/rapport-mart...
The Black Hole model set with a starfield
The USS Cygnus model in front of a starfield
The Black Hole (1979): The practical model of the USS Cygnus was filmed in front of a starfield, not a blue screen ☝️
Panel of the Honeywell Kitchen Computer with the silhouette of a smart phone across its white surface.
Magazine page that features a woman in an apron with one hand on the kitchen computer. Text reads, “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can computer.”
A woman sits in a chair across from her kitchen computer featuring a very long scroll of paper cluttering a kitchen space.
The Honeywell Kitchen Computer
• At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California
• In the 1969 Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book
• In the December 12, 1969 edition of Life magazine
