Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…?
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In the early 1980s, if you couldn’t afford a (ridiculously expensive) Xerox 860 word processor will a “full page” display, you could save some money by buying a Xerox 850, with a “half page” display. (The 850 was still ridiculously expensive.)pic.twitter.com/twKBOeENab
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Replying to @mwichary
The ergonomic inhumanity in these pictures is impressive
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Replying to @8bitRush
Yeah, it was only around that time that those things started to matter.
5:21 PM - 18 Sep 2019
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