Oldschool computer porn
Posted: 09 Oct 2016, 19:54
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Posted: 09 Oct 2016, 20:04
The only thing floppy in those pictures are the disks. Very nice pics!
Posted: 09 Oct 2016, 20:11
I'd forgotten that people dressed up to go to work back in those days.
Posted: 09 Oct 2016, 20:39
Very 1980's, we even have some Model M action in there.
Posted: 09 Oct 2016, 22:29
Posted: 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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Posted: 10 Oct 2016, 03:58
always forget about that garbage. Fitting song, and cool collection of pics! Need to get some high res adverts for wallpapers 
Posted: 10 Oct 2016, 18:02
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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Posted: 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! 
Posted: 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. 
Posted: 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".
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".
Posted: 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.
Posted: 12 Oct 2016, 17:23
Ahh brilliant thanks for posting those. Look at that optical disk! Wow, seems outlandish now.
Posted: 12 Oct 2016, 21:12
You could put 10+ TB on something that size nowadays.
Re: Oldschool computer porn
Posted: 03 Aug 2020, 21:42
Re: Oldschool computer porn
Posted: 06 Aug 2020, 08:53
I worked with Julian for a few years. Really nice guy. Wonder what he's up to now?