Tag Archives: 1980s

Silikoni was a Finnish radio program in the 80’s that broadcasted computer files as audio (which sounds something like this). It was aired on Thursdays at 18.30. Some people liked to transfer the audio to the computer and make the program run, while others just liked the sounds.

I once had a letter from a 70 year old lady who wrote she did not understand anything of computing but she liked to listen to how different makes of computers buzzed in their personal (!) ways.

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The first issue of Minitel Magazine (January/February 1984), via.

Stroker by Bob Carr, 1983. A C64 wanking game in PETSCII. Carr is one of the earliest PETSCII-artists, since he used the PET in the 1970’s.

(via @despens)

A video of a TRS80 performing audiovisual synthesis some 30 years ago. It’s hard to tell due to the delightfully modern compression, but it seems to be mostly textmode.

Televerkets Datavision and Videotex screens from the 80s (Sweden).
They were printed on a Shinwa CPA80.

Justine de Sade. Minitel adaptation made by JET7 (Stephen Belfond and Sophie Marin). Watch the flash version here.

Prestel, cover from 1982

Kenneth Knowlton, Statue of Liberty and Lazarus’ Poem” 1986

Pinky was a hobbyist Minitel micro server, 1986-1992. It received around 30,000 calls. It ran on Atari ST and Telestrat.

Screens from Granny’s Garden (BBC Micro, 1983). It appears to be completely in teletext, which the BBC Micro supported.