In 1983 a Xerox PARC researcher produced this videotape to convince upper management to invest in cognitive science research.

The video included examples of the difficulty of operating Xerox photocopiers, one of which featuring the struggles and frustrations with a copier of two world-renowned scientists, computational linguist Ron Kaplan and AI founding father Allan Newell.

https://archive.org/details/parc-why-cognitive-science

#UserExperience #xerox #photocopier #retrocomputing

The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded Edition

This beautifully designed 480-page book reveals the vital role the Mac played in the growth and advancement of the nascent gaming industry.

Coming soon, register your interest here: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/the-secret-history-of-mac-gaming-expanded-edition

#bitmapbooks #books #gaming #apple #mactintosh #bookstodon

Scanned and uploaded to the @internetarchive: This undated #filmstrip features illustrations from students at the Mohansic School in Yorktown Heights, NY. It's missing its soundtrack, though, so it's hard to tell what it's about.

VIEW AT YOUR OWN PACE: https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-f5521-interpretations-the-me-nobody-knows-class-6-mm-mohansic-school-yor

Meet the man trying to preserve Nova Scotia’s video game history
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/meet-the-man-trying-to-preserve-nova-scotias-video-game-history/

Morning File by @philmoscovitch

#Bookstodon

Trying to identify a novel or novella!

This is probably a very long shot.

I remember reading a book (I think it was in English class) when I was about 12 years old (which would be 1979-ish so it's older than that).

Setting was far northern #Australia, main characters were children. I think they were stranded, and I think the book ended with scenes of all of them walking along the beach, then later walking on the beach but there was one less, and so on, with the implication being that they gradually died.

I've heard of the #ArnhemLand novels by Ann E Wells and I wonder if it's one of those, but can't find any copies or even synopses to test my theory.

All ideas welcome!

#WhatsTheTitle #WhatsThatBook #FindABook #BookIdentification #StoryIdentification #BookFinder

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I am looking to connect with other folks on the fediverse who study, work in, or otherwise post about police surveillance tech, smart city tech being repurposed as police surveillance, municipal governance of surveillance technologies, and anticipatory governance in US contexts in general/US racially segregated cities in particular. Boosts very welcome! #introduction #SmartCity #surveillance #police #governance #alpr #flock #PredictivePolicing #palantir #drones #bodycameras #sociology

love how amateurish the ads in early PC Magazine are as they try to compete with the flood of multi-function cards littering the magazine and stand out (March 1984 issue)

#retrocomputing #PCMagazine #TheCRAMBO