Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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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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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@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!!
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@occult Every new language, tool, platform, library, and framework in the last 40 years was going to cut development time in half. Must be close to zero already even without Claude.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult when computing abandoned rainbows, the future went dark.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult three years left!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult could happen!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult scanning a QR code with my phone to login to Discord
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I mean instead of QR codes we could have had this
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@occult when computing abandoned rainbows, the future went dark.
@llewelly I'd argue there’s plenty of rainbows around the Fediverse!
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@occult @Haste@mastodon.social they really liked to put rainbows on computers in the 80s, i guess to indicate that they could display more than two colours.
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@occult @Haste@mastodon.social they really liked to put rainbows on computers in the 80s, i guess to indicate that they could display more than two colours.
@burnitdown for sure. I mean, it was a choice and it represented color graphics, but it sure hits differently in 2026!
There are lots of examples in these old magazines like this. We lost this kind of original, experimental advertising. This was all in an otherwise stuffy UNIX magazine with articles about relational databases and reports from the front lines on C standardization committees.
Compared to what we see today, it's very refreshing.
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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
I could see this one becoming a real thing --- using your smart phone to project QR codes to your desktop computer's screen camera to control them or send files. Now if only we could project laser light from our smart phones.
