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Tag Archives: 1980s

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.

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

2019-03-18

1980s, antiope, france, 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.

2019-03-18

1980s, 1989, bbs, c64, petscii, usa.

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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, so I’ve tagged it accordingly.

2018-08-10

1980s, 1981, ebcdic, ibm, usa.

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

2018-07-06

1980s, austria, terminal, 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, zx spectrum.

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

2018-06-14

1980s, 1986, character set, DOS, font.

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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 set, font.

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