phaxda Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 As a retrocomputing enthusiast, I thought these were awesome and have not seen them posted before here on AA and want to share: http://www.squareamerica.com/ib.htm The colors, the fonts, the awesome clothing! I love it! Of course, I'd rather have Atari hardware, but this is fun stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 that is a cool presentation. Sooooooooooo 70's in the fonts and color choices. I surprised those IBMs weren't available in avocado and orange like home appliances back then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiliteZoner Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 that is a cool presentation. Sooooooooooo 70's in the fonts and color choices. I surprised those IBMs weren't available in avocado and orange like home appliances back then That's pretty cool. I am a little surprised to see the term "virtual storage" used. I didn't realize that term is that old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 When they were saying "online" they were not talking about Amazon.com. The vision of IBM back then was still one of being a solution provider for big business, a walled garden, so to speak. An extranet. What the computer industry didn't realize back then was that computing (and the online space) was going to break out of the domain of big business and into the homes of individuals. It was going to democratize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I wish I knew what the presenter was saying while the slides were being shown. That is just too neat a piece of history not to have jokes made about it. As far as I can remember, there were two schools of thought on the whole "computing" thing, and the setup shows in that particular show the one where you have a central mainframe or mini with lots of terminals interfacing to it. That whole thing really didn't make it since the chips got cheaper to make if I remember all this right. The topology of it is still present with the client/server schema of networking, but the hardware is not the same. I actually prefer the peer-peer way of doing distributed computing. Having Ataris and Commodores doing this would totally rock. All around a Unix type server. Yes, that would rock. I noticed also that the numbering of the slides skips. I guess some of the slides were pulled for some reason. Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) Quick and stupid joke Edited August 4, 2008 by joeybastard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noelio Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Quick and stupid joke HAHAHAHAHA! I sincerely do blame porn as being the root cause of the major expansion of the internet userbase. Soon as pictures were feasible at 14,400bps speeds that was it! And of course the graphical browser. The internet is for porn indeed. Or was. Seems I've lost touch with everything outside Atariage, Ebay, Drudgereport! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 This guys picture from one of the slides looks like it belongs on a bucket of chicken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarian63 Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 As a retrocomputing enthusiast, I thought these were awesome and have not seen them posted before here on AA and want to share: http://www.squareamerica.com/ib.htm The colors, the fonts, the awesome clothing! I love it! Of course, I'd rather have Atari hardware, but this is fun stuff. Yep pretty cool! I think those ads would put most people to sleep, work oriented.. Probably was cutting edge in 75, just think.. computers.. it was sexy way back when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 This guys picture from one of the slides looks like it belongs on a bucket of chicken! LOL!! I liked this one... Some things never change apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I bet there's a slide there of lots of computer nerds/geeks huddled over an Altair 8080 (or similar)...imagine trying to run XP or Vista (32 or 64) on that thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giltygear Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I found the presentation informative and insightful... These "com-poo-TORS" are going to revolutionize the way we do business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 (edited) The Internet - Circa 1969 Edited February 12, 2009 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogstar_robot Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 The Internet - Circa 1969 Douglas Englebart showed off a working networked mouse-drive hypertext system in 1968. A couple of years back there was talk of some British Telecom scuzzbuckets demanding teh Mega Royalties for everyone to use the Internet on the strength of a 1974 patent. The following would have shut that down toot suite: http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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