250 posts on Unsung today!
To celebrate, I thought about and posted the goals + principles of the blog: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-at-25...
…and also shared my fav little design details: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-at-25...
…and, I’m curious if you have ideas on how I can make Unsung better!
Wait what! I was just there. That’s good to know.
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But you’d be signaling you are okay with e.g. this, just to pick the most recent of many examples: bsky.app/profile/kott...
Maybe I’m too internet-brained but I just hope the owner isn’t skipping on dog training because it makes for good viral videos.
Ahahahah I laughed out loud
Ahahah even the cat was collateral damage at the end.
Thanks! Alas it won’t work for me, but interesting to know.
Is that… true? I am not sure why that would work reliably. (In addition to this being a generally unpleasant thing to do…)
Tell them I sent you haha
Ah the flattening of history.
That’s it! I spent most of the time on the first floor with big machines. There is an entire second floor with a lot of microcomputers, but those were more familiar to me.
This is the website: www.mact.io/about_us
It’s currently by appointment. The volunteers were very nice!
In my next life, I want to come back as a Nixie tube.
Why do companies tried to make circular mice happen so hard? I think this is the third one I know of (after the iMac puck one and the later NeXT one).
A lot of wires in the old computers.
The future was once now.
Just a lot of shoddy Gorton all around. 🧡
Fun arrangement of ports on an IBM (5100, I think?) computer + a secret inventory # Gorton.
Not-so-fun instructions from an accounting computer that was used at a funeral home.
Fun tape changing instructions on the device itself.
If you looked carefully, you might have spotted this Y2K readiness sticker on the last photo.
For blue, you have to go with IBM blue.
(Hey computer, read the room.)
All the classic colors of CRTs: amber, white, green, and burn-in.
This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard that established the inverse T arrow key standard.
Here: symbols for inverse video, blinking, underlining, and… something?
I punched them up… a lil bit.
I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT and DELETE.
Which one is more scary: a Mac keyboard pretending to be a Space Cadet, or a Kaypro keyboard with an extremely intense overlay?
