Tag Archives: 1980s

2020-07-06
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Fun with basic keyboard graphics, a book from 1986 by Winnifred Nichols. Contains step-by-step instructions for 50 keyboard/typewriter works. Plenty of seasonal greetings! Available in full at archive.org thanks to Marcin Wichary.

2020-06-30
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Title screen for Framework III (DOS, 1988). Video by @dosnostalgic.

2019-08-11
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Works by Andre Krayewski (Andrzej Krajewski), 1970s and 1980s. h/t Marcin Przyłęcki.

2019-03-18
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Gretel was a Minitel service that was hacked and transformed into one of the earliest chat services around 1982. Video here.

2019-03-18
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The Sysop is busy at Cottonwood BBS, via Dan James (2019). This was an example picture that came with Aaron Hightower’s Digital Paint 2.0 from 1989.

2018-08-10
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Colourized ASCII art at NASA using an IBM System/370 in 1981, via. Or… EBCDIC art?

2018-07-06
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Mupid was an Austrian videotex terminal that was also a programmable computer. It supported text graphics with custom fonts, pixel and vector graphics with 4096 colours, and telesoftware. More info here, here and here. h/t: Tim Koch

2018-06-14
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“From a 1988 Polish computer magazine” / @mwichary.

2018-06-14
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The 1986 retina screen: the WY-700 video card/screen gave the PC a 1280×800 resolution, and a text-mode of 160 columns by 50 lines. It had a built-in 16×16 font (download), and you could even use your own custom fonts. The high-res modes only supported greyscale, but who needs colours anyway?

Sources: John Elliot, thecomputerarchive.com, PC Mag.

2018-05-09
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The Amstrad PC 1640 character set is similar to Code Page 437, but there are a few differences.

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