Tag Archives: 1980s

Nude from 1980, copied by Comet, 2001.

The following picture was hand copied from an old printout from a Univac 1100 computer in 1980. Old mainframe printers made each page with 132 columns and 66 lines per page.

Telesoftware on BBC – downloaded from teletext to your own computer. BBC regularly offered new software up until 1989.

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La plissure du texte by Roy Ascott, 1983. A twelve-day project with artists in North America, Europe and Australia collaborating through the ARTEX network. Each participant took the role of a fairy tale character to create the story together.

HABA Pattern Mosaic toy

BBS-graphics by Le Geek, 1989. C64 PETSCII.

BBS-animation by Le Geek, 1989. C64 PETSCII.

A Star Trek episode recreated in C64 BASIC by James Gaither, 1986. The sound was obviously added later.

From SCORE 4 by Karl Kempton & Loris Essary, 1984.

More Kempton @ text-mode.

Gran mundo infantil encyclopedia (Barcelona, 1970s-1980s) Ed. Marín

The mosaic patterned walls of the Tottenham Court Road tube station by Eduardo Paolozzi (1982)