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2014-11-22

1980s, 1983, japan, petscii.

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Kawasaki Synthesizer for C64, made by the Japanese jazz musician Ryo Kawasaki in 1983. Graphics partly made in petscii.

2014-11-12

1980, 1980s, print, teletext, uk.

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Ferguson’s teletext, from EMI’s Thorn Group shows the state of the teletext art in June 1980, via.

2014-11-08

1980s, grid.

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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, via.

2014-10-26

1980s, 1988, ansi, bbs, usa.

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CloneWorld BBS, 1988.

This is the welcome screen for the late Mike Cohen’s Cloneworld BBS in Matawan NJ. It was heavily animated, upon logging into the BBS it was completely drawn from the bottom up using ANSI animation starting with a black screen. The text (Welcome to Cloneworld etc) was drawn last, swooping in from the lower right and swirling around the screen until it landed as seen here. Our BBSes were local phone calls to each other, and Mike and I became good friends and spent a lot of time on the phone discussing BBSing, computers, and cars.

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2014-10-16

1980s, 1981, atascii, game, usa.

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Sammy the Sea Serpent for Atari 8-bit, 1981. Excellent text-mode story telling for kids, with minor interaction. Runs both data and audio from the cassette at the same time, according to atarimuseum.

h/t: drx

2014-10-15

1980s, 1981, book, canada.

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