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Marcin Wichary
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I am seriously fascinated by the weird anthropomorphized illustrations of mainframe computers from the 1960s and 1970s. I find them all the time now in my research.
(Sometimes I imagine all of them as a cast of some sort of a sitcom.)
I have to imagine all these illustrations must feel pretty abstract now, but they built on the classic IBM 729 tape drive shape that was all over the place 50–60 years ago.
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Marcin Wichary
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I learned about the most delightful little device today at @SFCB.

You know these typical old-school restaurant bills in America?
@SFCB I never thought twice about the numbers on them, but it’s a tricky challenge.

You want the number to be different on every copy, but typesetting a completely new number every time is cumbersome – and numbering by hand afterwards might be equally annoying.
@SFCB Say hello to the Ultra-Force numbering device.

It seems like a regular rotary stamp. You can rotate the digits to whatever number you want by hand if you want to.

But that extruded typeset numero is not a weird accident.
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Marcin Wichary
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@enf @glennf What do you think this “r.” is? (Also, note two quotation marks!)
I wonder if they introduced two quotations marks because they got flak for stuff like this in S&G version 1. :·)
For the record – solved here!!!
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Marcin Wichary 💔
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Earlier this month, @hannahjdotca alerted me to the existence of this weird novelty calendar with a cat in front of an old HP computer. I couldn’t help but grabbing it and scanning it all.
It’s very proto-lolcat in nature. The premise is largely that Morris hates the high technology of the 1980s…
…which is a fascinating mixture from the perspective of 2019.
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