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Browsing the Tangible Media site and here’s something I didn’t know about: a microfilm blueprint embedded in a punched card encoding the metadata identifying the image. A highly tangible digital–analogue crossover format!
- https://tangiblemediacollection.com/artifacts/aperture-card
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 week, 3 days ago.
This abacus has an electronic calculator built in to it for some reason.
- lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: (@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange) Attached: 1 image A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled tool, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices. Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.
Noted by Damian Cugley 6 months, 1 week ago.
- Japan
- Mastodon
- retro
Dana Sibera posts strange and wonderful computer hardware to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social. Marcin Wichary wrote about her cursed universes on his Shift Happens newsletter.
- The cursed universes of Dana Sibera The Kickstarter for Shift Happens still has 10 days to go. Please help us get to $700,000 and unlock a free nice colorful third-volume for everyone by...
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 9 months ago.
- Dana Sibera
- gallery
- hardware
- retro
Printing Films: an archive of industrial films about printing, typography, & journalism. Including ‘Farewell etaoin shrdlu’, about the last night of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.

(Via @boldmonday on Twitter)
- Printing Films Archive A website dedicated to preserving the visual history of the printed word
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 2 months ago.
- letterpress
- library
- printing
- retro
- video
MD Polychrome is a retro-futuristic type family inspired by the 1960s typefaces inspired by Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) symbols.

(Via @mass_driver_tm on Twitter)
- MD Polychrome Typeface MD Polychrome is a display typeface based on the unique ‘retro high-tech’ aesthetic of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR), and the pre-digital fonts which it inspired.
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 3 months ago.
- font
- Mass Driver
- retro
- typeface
Entertaining twitter thread on a bug (that wasn't a bug really) caused by changing keyboard-layout conventions and the accommodations made to support old keyboards on new computers.
- @figmadesign on Twitter This is a story of a Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all. In November of 2019, one of our users reported this: ⁝ MW
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 7 months ago.
- programming
- retro
Short silent film of aerial footage from a dirigible piloted by Roy Knabenshue in 1914 over Chicago.

(Via Aerial Footage of Chicago from a Dirigible (1914))
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxCFCoI2pj
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 8 months ago.
- Chicago
- dirigible
- retro
The 1992 hacking film Sneakers has a press kit in the form of a floppy disk with DOS program, which modern web technology allows you to run in your web browser.

(Via @powersoffour on Twitter)
- Sneakers Computer Press Kit : Universal City Studios : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Released in conjuction with the computer hacking movie Sneakers (1992), this floppy-based computer press kit contained many of the aspects of regular movie...
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 6 months ago.
- film
- presskit
- retro
Twitter thread on Jean Paul Gaultier’s circuit-board-inspired fashions from the Millenium Bug era of the 1990s.
- johnny gin&tonic on Twitter “just found out about jean paul gaultier's knitted circuit board collection from 1995 these fucking rule”
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
- fashion
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- knit
- retro

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