Mastodawn

My favorite use of PLINC’s Caruso Roxy: the covers for a series of creative activity books by Grace Mintonye and James E. Seidelman, published by Crowell-Collier Press from 1967 on.

See all of seven on @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/42135/creating-book-series-by-james-e-seidelman-and

#BookCovers #crafts #MidCentury #1960s #fonts #FontsInUse

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼2d ago

One of the stranger mysteries about the Sphere computers has been their BASIC language. Slow, huge... but oddly powerful. Full details only emerged late, so barely in advance of the book's arrival, I present the wild story of Sphere BASIC:
https://sphere.computer/news/2026-03-28-the-secret-minicomputer-inside-your-sphere.html

Sphere News: The Secret Minicomputer Inside Your Sphere

Unveiling the extraordinary origins of Sphere's BASIC programming language.

Sphere Computers

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 26

DNA Lounge Feb 25

Blog update, wherein we've got Spencer's VHS tapes
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/25.html?utm_source=sp_ma

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 22

David JONES Feb 12

I am writing up this advert i found in Byte magazine and it uses _all_ the IBM Selectric fonts. So far 6, and climbing (because i haven't identified them all yet). [edit, later: the final count was 9, including 4 FIU firsts (plus loads of other dry-transfer fonts, some of which were also FIU firsts): https://fontsinuse.com/uses/75316/bill-godbout-electronics-advert-in-byte-magaz ]
#Selectric

Bill Godbout Electronics advert in BYTE magazine

Bill Godbout was something of a pioneer in the early microcomputer movement of the 1970s, and his firm Bill Godbout Electronics was a commercial vehicle selling discount and surplus electronics and microcomputer components. Bill Godbout Electronics was a regular advertiser in the

Fonts In Use

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 16

paulrickards Feb 16

Having more fun with this composition of quads filled with Ben Day dots which is slow to plot because there’s so much pen up and down motion.

CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI #PlotterTwitter #PenPlotter

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Jan 30

Final book jacket design for my upcoming history of Sphere computers. Looks fab. The book can as of now still be pre-ordered via the Kickstarter campaign's "late pledges." https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Jan 29

kottke.org Jan 29

Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was): a deep dive into ASCII rendering. Super interesting! https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Jan 28

Most people call it EGA and VGA but real Californians say “the” EGA and the VGA

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Dec 20

bitsavers.org Dec 20

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

#bitsavers

B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Nov 29

Did you know the original floppy disk prototype used some pink wipes from Safeway, Manila file folders, and a 45rpm record player? This fun fact and more in the talk that I gave this past summer at the VCF West on the Sphere and (mostly) the neat history of the floppy disk https://youtu.be/NoXtIR_Edgk?si=K64aL4_TYstzpO-6

VCF West: The Minifloppy Revolution, and a Disk Controller for the Sphere 6800

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