These Are Great. I Really Like House’s Pose And Cigar.

I stole the background photos and the bird from other people to make these.

Pig, the cat.

I mean, yeah, kind of

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We’ll never know why (or how) there’s a TV hooked up to a mid 60s Univac 1108. I’m so sad.

Univac used the Uniscope 300 as their foray into video terminals. What we see here kind of reminds me of the IBM 2260 series. Like the 2260, there has to be a cabinet somewhere generating the video for that setup. A 300 is considerably more sophisticated than a 2260.

It came it me in a dream

Behold, a thing I saw.

It’s nice to think about for sure. Believe me, I have been. But maybe this world is what we make it. We’ll have to see.

I am just tired from everything and everyone and I don’t know what to do anymore but I wish I could dissapear from this place and none could find me start in a new place I don’t know to explain

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

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