Tag Archives: 1970s

ORACLE page 100, 1978.

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ASCII scan from the Sci-Fi movie The Andromeda Strain (1971) by Robert Wise

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Christa Häusler-Goltz (German, born 1943), Pyramid (“Violet/Purple” colorway), 1977. Made by Taunus Textildruck for Knoll Textiles. Used for drapery, cotton; plain weave, screen-printed. Photo Bruce White

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Beethoven Today by Bob Cobbing, 1970. From the book Typewriter Art, edited by Alan Riddell 1975.

Cityscape by Donato Cinicolo, 1972.

Second Movement 5’V by Anni Albers, 1978.

Paintings by Julio Le Parc, 1970-1974.

Archeological maps in ASCII from 1975. A good way of visualizing spatial and other information simultaneously, and obviously a forerunner to both text adventure maps and modern cartography, as noted here.

Also check the typewriter maps, fat font for text-mode infovis & the virus map.

From the movie The Final Programme by Robert Fuest, 1973.

Demo software that came with DOS 3.2 for Apple II, 1979. Author unknown.