Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.

[neia@zoner.work]

@occult@vox.ominous.net Megaphone? I-isn't that the speaker / earpiece for an old timey phone?

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@occult in Argentina we say that Europeans exchanged with aborigines of the Americas gold for "colored mirrors". The way we're currently swallowing #AI, I would say we're definitely programming with colored mirrors.

[fluffy@plush.city]

@occult Thanks to Linux I've been computing like that since 1995

[neilk@xoxo.zone]

@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/

https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_02.pdf

[chip_unicorn@im-in.space]

@occult Absolutely unrealistic.

Everyone knows that it's BLUE waves of light that control computers!

[occult@vox.ominous.net]

@neilk Yep, in the root of the thread here I link to Archive.org and I mention the titles / issue numbers etc.

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@occult Are those WY-50s?

[sethrichards@mas.to]

@occult Remarkably prescient.

[denofearth@mas.to]

@occult
Computing in the year 2038 as planned by UNIX and depicted by a movie from 1981

[floatybirb@mastodon.social]

@occult this may yet come to pass, inshallah

[acsawdey@fosstodon.org]

@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.

[neilk@xoxo.zone]

@occult you’re right, and I am sorry I got persnickety there

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@occult @Haste Why does the machine cast the shadow of a floppy, what is the metaphor here

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@occult @Haste is the shadow under the machine supposed to look like a silhouette of an 8 inch floppy disk?

[occult@vox.ominous.net]

@wyatt @Haste I believe so! I’ve seen a lot of that subtle but seemingly intentional imagery in the various ads.

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@occult I mean! This is what we're doing now already with trying to circumvent face IDing with the help of moddable computer games and brining.

Why wait till 2029. Laser your computer rn!!

[occult@vox.ominous.net]

@mhoye @Haste I don’t know! I agree, it looks intentional.

[curry@theforkiverse.com]

@bit101 @occult I'm ready for things to start taking longer to do. Exquisitely lengthening the time to accomplish tasks, that's my goal.

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@occult when computing abandoned rainbows, the future went dark.

[sashin@veganism.social]

@occult three years left!