Colin RileyOct 19
Catbus
Wes Anderson saw these computers as a child and never recovered
Oct 19 at 7:23amWeb
Show threadSigmundFroodOct 19
@ancient_catbus well yeah, from back when computers were interesting and not a black box where I type in a google search and it produces an AI generated paragraph justifying the Opium War.
Show threadA.V. HeiroOct 19

@SigmundFrood @ancient_catbus

From back when computers competed in podracing.

Show threadArtemisOct 19
@SigmundFrood @ancient_catbus It's kinda fascinating how the pursuit of functionality often leads to complete loss of aesthetics.
Show threadDaphne Preston-KendalOct 19
@ancient_catbus @selectric Is the green one a later model of 8? It looks like a 10, but the 10 was usually blue, and 18/36 bit and not 12 bit
Show threadSpace HoboOct 19
@dpk @ancient_catbus @selectric That's a #pdp12!
Show threadSpace HoboOct 19
@dpk @ancient_catbus @selectric It's basically a combination PDP-8 and LINC (the blue one with the smaller scope display in one of the photos)
Show threadJustin To #НетВойнеOct 19
@spacehobo @dpk @ancient_catbus @selectric I had a PDP-12 stored in my office at my last job. I used to just sit there and admire it
Show threadSpace HoboOct 19
@justinto @dpk @ancient_catbus @selectric I made my desktop background a Hicks Hexagon pattern (the carpet from The Shining) in PDP-12 greens.
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Oct 19

@ancient_catbus

And honestly neither have I. I've been working and playing on computers most of my life an none of it has been as good as what these promised.

Show threadDuracell Benny ⚡Oct 19
@ancient_catbus Glorious!
Show threadKo Simon toku ingoa Oct 19
@ancient_catbus @CiaraNi wow!
Show threadwall-eOct 19
@ancient_catbus flamboyant beep boop machine > grey featureless pebble
Show threadCatbusOct 19
@wall_e every single time
Show thread~/phranck Oct 19
@ancient_catbus @dch These are so beautiful devices. 😍
Show threadMisja van LaatumOct 19
@ancient_catbus tech is just better in funky colours 👌🌈
Show threadPaul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.Oct 19
@ancient_catbus PDP 11!! 🤩
Show threadGiuda BallerinoOct 19
@ancient_catbus I wish consumer tech didn't look so boring
Show threadWren 🐁Oct 19
@ancient_catbus computers used to be cool
Show threadsmolwaffleOct 19
@ancient_catbus
I'd like some modern key caps based on that PDP11/70 input device
@spacehobo
Show threadSpace HoboOct 19

@smolwaffle @ancient_catbus https://drop.com/buy/drop-mt3-dasher-keycap-set?defaultSelectionIds=967198 ← Something like these dasher keycaps but in PDP-11/Virgin Atlantic grooovy red-and-purple would work.

I'd do it for PDP-12 greens!

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Show threadSpace HoboOct 20
@smolwaffle @ancient_catbus https://teh.entar.net/@ExhibitExplorer/115404965664498270 ← could be sold alongside replicas of this dress for when you're just having The Most PDP-11 Day Ever.
ExhibitExplorer (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images Colour block long dress Fiona purchased this dress in 1970 to wear to a ball after seeing a version of it in Paraphanalia. "The original dress was a short one, but I wanted it long so the owner of the store made this one specially for me to wear. It was a bit different as then everyone was wearing girly, frilly dresses to balls. This one with its colour blocking, modern phrase, was a little different. I loved it and wore it a few more times after the ball to clubs, etc." Read more about 1970s fashion in the New Zealand Fashion Museum publication The Age of Aquarius: A 70s Revolution in Fashion.  New Zealand Fashion Museum via DigitalNZ http://api.digitalnz.org/records/36040244/source

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Show threadsmolwaffleOct 20
@spacehobo
That's the day you take delivery of a new (to you), PDP-11, right?
@ancient_catbus
Show threadIsaac Ji KuoOct 19

@ancient_catbus I look forward to a decade or two when the Wes Anderson aesthetic becomes what everyone thinks the 2010s looked like.

I mean, the 1980s were so brown, but now everyone thinks the 1980s looked like a Michael Mann production. The entirety of what people think the 1980s aesthetic looked like WAS JUST ONE DIRECTOR. It's not 1980s aesthetic, it's Michael Man aesthetic!

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Show threadSteven LiptonOct 19
@ancient_catbus I kinda miss DEC
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyOct 19

@ancient_catbus

We used to make beautiful things.

Show threadn3wjackOct 19
@ancient_catbus those color schemes 💗
Show threadSaricchiellaOct 19
@ancient_catbus I understand now, Wes. I'm sorry for judging.
Show threadGentleMan GefOct 19
@ancient_catbus
Show threadLROct 19
@ancient_catbus
Show threadkessler herd immunityOct 19
@ancient_catbus ok but me neither computers of that era look sick as fuck
Show threadCatbusOct 19
@kirakira real talk
Show threadTommyTorty10Oct 19
@ancient_catbus I haven't recovered either
Show threadRichard BarrellOct 19
@ancient_catbus that grey and lime green in the third picture is such a good colour scheme, I love it
Show threadDuncan MacGregorOct 19
@ancient_catbus recovered doesn’t seem like the right word here.
Show threadSpring Jo 🥚  🍀Oct 19

@ancient_catbus did he make movies with computers?

i swear i havent seen a single one in any of them, unless i didnt watch the right ones

Show threadAnother PersonOct 19
@ancient_catbus a PDP11 with teeth 🤓
Show threadElvis PrestwickOct 19
@ancient_catbus I wrote code directly on a PDP11. Or maybe I was in Tangerine Dream.
Show threadZyphoodOct 19
@ancient_catbus What are the two minions doing, looking out from the front panel of the blue one?!
Show threadDr Susi ArnottOct 19
@zyphood @ancient_catbus mental arithmetic i daresay
Show thread🇳🇿   💉*9 RogerOct 19
@zyphood @ancient_catbus tape drives
Show threadWhatisgoingonOct 19
@ancient_catbus They are gorgeous!
Show threadJohn Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿Oct 19
@ancient_catbus 😊 By coincidence I have just at this very minute finished watching the Grand Budapest Hotel for the very first time. 😁👌
Show threadcrispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)Oct 19
@ancient_catbus literally looking at ridley Scotts only knowledge of computers.
Show threadDartzIRLOct 19

@ancient_catbus

Those computers were still machines. People saw them as machines which could be studied and mastered.

Rather than magical devices we have today which require wizardry and magic spells.

Show threaderi Oct 20
@ancient_catbus and he was right for it
Show threadRichard WebbOct 20
@ancient_catbus
One looks very familiar. Started on a PDP 8 over 50 years ago.
Show threadWooShellOct 20
@ancient_catbus Color in tech seems to follow global trends.. house interiors during that era were also very much more colorful than today, as were cars. Nowadays, both tech and furniture has turned mostly monochrome and boring.
Show threadAral BalkanOct 20
@ancient_catbus I mean, can you blame him?
Show threadToni ErdmannOct 20
@ancient_catbus Wow! That seems to be ages ago when I had to mount a tape on such a PDP/11 running Unix. That was for QNAP (Queuing Network Analysis Package) from INRIA end of the 70ties.
Show threadSean TilleyOct 20
@ancient_catbus Those look extremely cool!
Show threadCatbusOct 20
@deadsuperhero aren't they great?
Show threadBel PolarisOct 21
@ancient_catbus That is a sweet asthetic!
Show threadSunflower Björnskalle 🌻Oct 22
@ancient_catbus What's the blue one?
Show threadJan JohannessonOct 25
@ancient_catbus Obey 
Show threadpar tickeFeb 21
@ancient_catbus 🥹