Oldschool computer porn

seebart · 09 Oct 2016, 19:54

Enjoy.

http://www.vintag.es/2016/10/the-golden ... .html#more

Wodan · 09 Oct 2016, 20:04

The only thing floppy in those pictures are the disks. Very nice pics!

Hypersphere · 09 Oct 2016, 20:11

I'd forgotten that people dressed up to go to work back in those days.

seebart · 09 Oct 2016, 20:39

Very 1980's, we even have some Model M action in there.

pr0ximity · 09 Oct 2016, 22:29

seebart · 09 Oct 2016, 22:37

Fitting song pr0ximity, due to the endless SME / GEMA legal battle I get this, but I know the song so it's OK.

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pr0ximity · 10 Oct 2016, 03:58

seebart wrote: ↑Fitting song pr0ximity, due to the endless SME / GEMA legal battle I get this, but I know the song so it's OK.

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always forget about that garbage. Fitting song, and cool collection of pics! Need to get some high res adverts for wallpapers

seebart · 10 Oct 2016, 18:02

pr0ximity wrote: ↑
seebart wrote: ↑Need to get some high res adverts for wallpapers

Yeah me too, there is a lot great stuff out there but it's almost never high-res. Here's a lot of cool Ads:

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/compute ... ftware-ads

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/vintage-tech-ads/

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vometia · 11 Oct 2016, 18:08

Haha, awesome. I still have a couple of really ancient Philips brochures lying around somewhere: I'll have to see if I can remember where I left them. They were also fairly notorious for using attractive models to advertise very brown computers, though the beardy Spanish guy I worked with there also managed to get his face into one of them somehow!

seebart · 11 Oct 2016, 18:11

I'd be interested in those Philips brochures if they actually contain keyboards. I do not care for the beardy Spanish guy though.

vometia · 11 Oct 2016, 18:26

I'm sure he'll be seriously offended!

I found them: they were actually where I thought I'd find them, astonishingly. They're very '80s, and feature awesome but strange systems like Maestro. I vaguely remember their keyboards and I have absolutely no idea what on earth they would have been: they seemed to be made out of very heavy cast iron (edit: this is a slight exaggeration, but only slight: they were some sort of very substantial cast alloy stuff) (painted brown, obviously) and had extremely flat, low-profile keys. I don't think they were unpleasant to use, but they looked odd; and futuristic, at the time: I'm sure I saw the occasional Philips Maestro/P4000/P7000 keyboard on Red Dwarf.

Anyway, I'll scan in some of the offending brochures tomorrow, hopefully. Once I've stopped giggling at the word "Sophomation".

vometia · 12 Oct 2016, 17:22

Couple of pictures from the ancient catalogues. Neither has a date that I can see, so I'm guessing sort of early '80s, judging by the fashion, though I was quite used to seeing the various contraptions in the early '90s too. Prospect seems to have a reasonable-looking keyboard, but Megadoc has the weird P4000-ish keyboards I remember the C*BOL programmers using.

seebart · 12 Oct 2016, 17:23

Ahh brilliant thanks for posting those. Look at that optical disk! Wow, seems outlandish now.

ohaimark · 12 Oct 2016, 21:12

You could put 10+ TB on something that size nowadays.

Colin8999 · 03 Aug 2020, 21:42

Julian Pastor, instructing, P4000 terminal

vometia · 06 Aug 2020, 08:53

I worked with Julian for a few years. Really nice guy. Wonder what he's up to now?