B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼

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working onhttps://sphere.computer
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Show threadB Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼19h ago
@fhardwig @FontsInUse So good!
B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼19h ago
Florian Hardwig22h ago

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 LoungeFeb 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 JONESFeb 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
Show threadB Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 17
@mwichary This guy has been trying to find a way to ask her out for three months
Show threadB Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 17
@mwichary Yeah! The distinction often seems elided when you read about this. But basically, the first uses of compact cassettes for data storage were for minicomputers where it didn't make sense to buy the massive reel to reel systems that mainframes used. It was a mini version of that. Allow me to send you some brief historic material I snapshotted at CHM archives. Will email.
Show threadB Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 17
@mwichary This was probably a digital cassette. The form factor (compact cassette) was the same, but unlike the home computers with the audio signals and consumer grade tape decks, more serious systems stored data not as audio but more similar to how a floppy disk saved data. More expensive/complex mechanism and sometimes different tape media too. That stuff was super reliable and good but too $$ for home computers.
B Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 16
paulrickardsFeb 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

Show threadB Zotto 💪🤪🤳🏼Feb 1
@mwichary I just want a moylan arrow in the normal camera app so I know which side button takes the picture and which one locks the f*^%#ing phone