The ads in BYTE magazine were a visual display of the diversity and experimentation in the early computer industry.#retrocomputing #magazines
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The ads in BYTE magazine were a visual display of the diversity and experimentation in the early computer industry.
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The ads in BYTE magazine were a visual display of the diversity and experimentation in the early computer industry.
@amoroso That looks like an essay prompt! I don't disagree with you that the period you have in mind saw a "Cambrian explosion" of computing devices and peripherals, but there wasn't a matching set of socially empowering politics along with that. The politics were libertarian and individualist.
On a social level, the ads in BYTE perpetuate the sexism and classism of the day. Computers were a revolution only for the privileged and those who hold power. The ads were aimed at that demographic. The purposes to which computers should be put were intended to entrench power in the hands of the privileged.
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@amoroso That looks like an essay prompt! I don't disagree with you that the period you have in mind saw a "Cambrian explosion" of computing devices and peripherals, but there wasn't a matching set of socially empowering politics along with that. The politics were libertarian and individualist.
On a social level, the ads in BYTE perpetuate the sexism and classism of the day. Computers were a revolution only for the privileged and those who hold power. The ads were aimed at that demographic. The purposes to which computers should be put were intended to entrench power in the hands of the privileged.
@fluidlogic Absolutely, many such ads were cringey seen with today's eyes.
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@neil LOL NO HOW THE FSCK ARE YOU GOING TO GRIFT ON THAT
(I wish though)
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@evan No, not really. I've spent too many years listening to #GlennLoury to do so.
But I think there's a stronger case for #AffirmativeAction in university admissions for Black Americans than for Mr. Mamdani.
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@mpjgregoire also, if he was trying to cheat, shouldn't he have left "Asian" unchecked?
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Adorably fuzzy n00b is our #Squirrel of the Day for September 27, 2025 #squirrels
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Il 10 ottobre inauguriamo la mostra di
@palazzoblu
sul sistema universitario pisano nel '900. Il 12 alle 11:00 terrò poi la prima conferenza del ciclo che accompagna l'esposizione, parlando di "Il sistema universitario pisano nell'Italia che cambia"
https://palazzoblu.it/evento/il-sistema-universitario-pisano-nellitalia-che-cambia/@scuola@poliverso.org @scuola@mastodon.uno @universitaly @poliverso @poliversity
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IBM 5155 – Il primo portatile IBM (1984)
Questo “trasportabile” derivato dal PC IBM pesava 13 kg e offriva un monitor da 9", due floppy e fino a 640 KB di RAM.Oggi, nella sede di Apulia Retrocomputing, è stato aggiornato con una compact flash che funge da hard disk e contiene software e giochi originali, tra cui Pac-Man (che gira nella foto).
Una macchina storica che unisce lavoro e divertimento degli anni ’80.
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27 settembre 1983#accaddeoggiRichard Matthew Stallman, informatico e attivista USA, annuncia il progetto GNU con lo slogan "Gnu is Not Unix".
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A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example.
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I'm going to be participating at the next Interim Computer Festival in Seattle in two weeks.
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