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2023-03-27

1980s, 1981, france, op-art.

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Garadinervi: Jean Pierre Yvaral (aka Vasarely), from: L’instabilità come condizione umana, Edizioni d’Arte Il Segno, Macerata, 1981

2020-07-06

1980s, 1986, code, typewriter, usa.

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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

1980s, 1988, animation, DOS, usa.

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Title screen for Framework III (DOS, 1988). Video by @dosnostalgic.

2019-08-11

1970s, 1980s, design, poland, posters.

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

2019-03-18

1980s, france, gretel, minitel.

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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.

2018-07-06

1980s, austria, MUPID, videotex.

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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

1980s, 1988, basic, code, patterns, poland, spectrum.

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“From a 1988 Polish computer magazine” / @mwichary.

2018-06-14

1980s, 1986, Code page 437, DOS, fonts, resolutions.

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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

1980s, amstrad, character sets, fonts.

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