I always liked the idea of being one of those cool Lisp programmer with the Symbolics machines doing dark wizardry on green phosphor. It looks cool, but I'm almost certain I would actually hate it. Too bad, now we can just make Google do it for us.

#lisp, #unix, #symbolics, #programming, #vibecoding

@onebyte it is still great

@onebyte

Except... Symbolics monitors were bluish-white pixels on black. :-)

(There was a color monitor as an add-on, with color software to drive it. Initially quite expensive.)

https://www.chai.uni-hamburg.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/

Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum