Tag Archives: 1980s

2013-06-19
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Printed log-in screens from Phantasmal Alchemy, an Atari BBS in the mid 1980s. Made in Atari’s own ascii-standard ATASCII. 

The BBS started rather humbly, but eventually grew to encompass a large assortment of 8-bit hardware, including two 20MB hard drives.  Which, for Atari 8-bit stuff was pretty much infinite storage back then. :) The BBS was quite popular in Southeastern Connecticut, and I met many people through the BBS that I am still friends with to this day. 

More here. Spotted by @vectorbunny.

2013-06-09
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There is a sceptre haunting USA…

The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983), via.

2013-06-07
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Electra teletext service (1980s-1993) was America’s answer to the British Ceefax or ORACLE systems, providing news headlines, weather, entertainment/lifestyle info, and other information. Electra used the World System Teletext (WST) protocol, the same protocol used by other teletext services in the rest of the European continent.

2013-06-03
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Cultural patterns by Wendy Richmond. Made with Norpak Telidon terminal in the early 80s.

2013-05-30
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LOC BLOCs was a plastic block construction toy set.They were marketed in the 1970s and 1980s by Entex Industries,

2013-05-27
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How does Prestel works? by Logica / BVT Marketing.

2013-05-21
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Kapla is a wooden block construction toy for children and adults, developed around 1988 by Tom van der Bruggen.

2013-05-20
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BYTE Videotex (1983)

2013-04-19
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Environment Canada Weather Channel using the alphageometrical videotex protocol Telidon. From the mid 1980s. Thanks to Frederic Cambus for sharing.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
2013-03-31
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Stewart Home: Plagiarism: Art as Commodity and Strategies for its Negation (1987), via.

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