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Nantucket Lit 1d ago

Looking for cool retro computing images (portrait) to print and hang on the wall of the retro room but all I get is AI slop. I need some human recommendations! Old ads that are mostly visual, artistic photography. I'd happily pay as well, as long as it doesn't involve sending money to the US etc...

Please boost for reach?

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Photography #LazyWeb

🦠Toxic Flange (Gurjeet)🔬⚱️🌚3d ago

@gmc I’ve always wanted the Apple Pascal poster printed up for my wall..

@gmc https://toque.town/@rgsteele/115838505532666796

Ryan Steele :toque: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Your timeline has been blessed by the art from some generic packaging for a counterfeit Apple II peripheral card. #AppleII #retrocomputing

Toque Town

@rgsteele Lovely, even though it's apple. But counterfeit apple, so that makes it OK :)

prokyonid 3d ago

@gmc Well, I had the perfect recommendation (Paul Rickards has some fantasic retrocomputing themed plotter art) until the no money to the US part, though I certainly can't fault you for not wanting to do that. I don't like doing that and I live here.

prokyonid 3d ago

@gmc oh wait just saw you wanted old ads? Why don't you just go check out the internet archives? There's a couple of galleries of nothing but old retrocomputing ads on there.

@prokyonid Yeah, I was thinking that as well. Haven't been able to find them yet though, there's so much stuff on the internet archive and I am apparently incapable of entering the right search terms :)

I'm not specifically looking for ads though, it's just that ads of the era have a certain visual aesthetic that I'm after. Like this product packaging that @rgsteele lilnked in this thread: toque.town/@rgsteele/115838505…

I mean, that's just beautiful :)

But artistic photography would do as well. Like this stuff that a friend of mine did: flickr.com/photos/simski/album…

Ryan Steele :toque: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Your timeline has been blessed by the art from some generic packaging for a counterfeit Apple II peripheral card. #AppleII #retrocomputing

Toque Town

@prokyonid Well, those are cool anyway! Going to bookmark his page until such time I can find myself sending money to the US again, thanks for the recommendation!

Cyril Lugan 3d ago

@gmc I like the Byte covers by Robert Tinney. You can buy some on his website (but in the US I guess), maybe you can also find scans somewhere. Credits Robert Tinney / Byte Magazine.

COMPU73E ❄️3d ago

@gmc @Hundstrasse one of my favourite old ads was for "Heavy on the Magick" on the Spectrum. I remember seeing this in Crash Magazine. Great game, too

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/h/HeavyOnTheMagick.jpg

@gmc John Short (https://johnshort.com/) took phantastic photos for the books "Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation" (https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262044011) and "The Computer" (https://www.taschen.com/en/books/popculture/04692/the-computer/). If I remember correctly, he also showed some of them somewhere (Twitter? Instagram?) on the Internet around the time "The Computer" was published. Unfortunately, I can't find them anymore, but I also don't have accounts for Twitter or Instagram anymore. Maybe that's the reason.

Home - John Short

John Short London-based Photographer.

John Short

@m2c_n3e Interesting. I don't have twitter or instagram either, but I'm making a note and will have a look what I can find. Thanks!

The Retro Timer 💾3d ago

@gmc I find the Zektor arcade flyer quite nice for that.

@carlosefr Oooh, that's a nice one indeed!

@carlosefr And that led me to flyers.arcade-museum.com/ - what a gold mine!

The Arcade Flyer Archive - Home

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA) offers a nostalgic collection of coin-operated machine ads, capturing a blend of history, graphic design trends and campaigns.

Museum of the Game

Jess Robinson 2d ago

@gmc try searching with "before:2020" ?

der.hans 1d ago

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116085999024791244

@gmc archive.org has a ton of old computing magazines scanned in

there have been a couple retro computing threads on them recently

Here's one - https://floss.social/@[email protected]et/116086000083592005

@lufthans @gmc I should get back to my job of scouring old computer journals for original art and posting it to my thread.

I’m sorry I’ve been slacking, boss.

der.hans 1d ago

@occult @gmc Really enjoy that thread, you've posted some great art for us

Nantucket Lit 1d ago

@gmc I don't know if this is what you had in mind, but this is the cover for a book I published last year.

The pixel art is by @dinchenix, and I converted it into BASIC instructions. I photographed it on my Apple II using 35mm film. No "AI" was used in the process.

I could try to find my GIMP files for the image and make you a text-less version. Or the text could be included, either way. I really liked how it turned out.

@gmc Get yer paws on those Byte Magazine covers painted by Robert Tinney:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-truly-epic-byte-magazine-covers

The truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney

During the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Tinney illustrated some of the most amazing computer artwork for BYTE magazine.

The Lunduke Journal of Technology