I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever. The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters. The font is so simple it took up half a page in a manual. I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?

The sum of all fears (13 missing because of classic superstition. 4/14/24 missing because “4” sounds like “death” here in Taiwan. 2 missing because the lobby is tall.)

I’ve noticed a bunch of intercoms in Hong Kong have this animation of a cat on a loop:

I have seen so many rotary phones that it’s hard sometimes to imagine an alternative to that interface. But here’s one – a “Trommelwähler” (drum dialer) from Germany, model Fg Tist 264. (Apparently it wasn’t very successful.)

Trommelwähler – Wikipedia

Another cool retro tech aesthetic: an abandoned comms room in a Nowa Huta (Cracow) steelworks – named after Lenin originally.

eWorld > iTools > .Mac > iCloud Scanned this old eWorld brochure I had lying around.

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Welcome to eWorld (brochure) : Apple Computer, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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