Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.
This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.
No DNS.
Machines screamed at each other to swap data.
@occult Also note, Usenet, Telex... but no phone number!
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This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.
No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.
@occult I wasn't aware Gould made any kind of computers. I know them for their measuring equipment. You can see some of their logic analyzers in the popular Sci-Fi movie "Nukie".
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This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.
No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.
@occult As someone who commissions furry artists a lot, such an image is surprisingly cheap by commercial standards. In this quality (it is a tad sketchy at some parts) you'd probably pay something like a thousand dollars or less. Far less than running a double-page advertisement costs you.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult There's still time.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult@vox.ominous.net And look at the dumpster fire happening now. So sad.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult is this not how we do computing now? seems accurate enough.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Looks about right if things keep going the way they are
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Boss: I need art for an article on #UNIX networking technologies for the next issue of UNIX WORLD.
Artist: come back tomorrow.
@occult@vox.ominous.net Megaphone? I-isn't that the speaker / earpiece for an old timey phone?
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Thanks to Linux I've been computing like that since 1995
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I saw this without context… it would be great to have linked to archive.org
Seems confirmed real, not AI. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/28374/Unix-World-March-1985/
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Absolutely unrealistic.
Everyone knows that it's BLUE waves of light that control computers!
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@occult I saw this without context… it would be great to have linked to archive.org
Seems confirmed real, not AI. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/28374/Unix-World-March-1985/
@neilk Yep, in the root of the thread here I link to Archive.org and I mention the titles / issue numbers etc.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Are those WY-50s?
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Remarkably prescient.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult
Computing in the year 2038 as planned by UNIX and depicted by a movie from 1981 -
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult this may yet come to pass, inshallah
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This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.
No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.
@occult Ooh! I admin'd a Gould PN6040 starting around 1986!
A lovely 32-bit machine built around the AMD 2900 bit slice parts. Ran straight-up BSD 4.3 unix. 8MB RAM, an internal 8" 150MB disk, and we got another 150MB drive that was a giant CDC 14" drive with a belt drive and a spindle motor as big as a washing machine motor.
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@neilk Yep, in the root of the thread here I link to Archive.org and I mention the titles / issue numbers etc.
@occult you’re right, and I am sorry I got persnickety there
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