Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff
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Are there any computers available today that come in that particular shade of blue, with matching chair?
Click the photo to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of retrofuture.
This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.
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TechRadar UK is publishing a series of “Windows 7 Week” articles, some of which take a look back at the history of Windows. One of the articles presents a timeline of Windows packaging, from version 1.0 to 7:
…and another is a chronology of Windows’ boot screens:
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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I was 10 years old when Space Invaders came out, so this photo brings back happy memories:
Click the photo to see it on its original page.
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Two things we need to bring back into style: go-go boots and multi-coloured keyboards.
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Alternate titles for this ad: 150 Receding Hairlines! 150 Giant Foreheads!
Click the ad to see it at full size.
Here’s the text of the ad:
150 Extra Engineers
An IBM Electronic Calculator speeds through thousands of intricate computations so quickly that on many complex problems it’s like having 150 EXTRA Engineers.
No longer must valuable engineering personnel…now in critical shortage…spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring.
Thousands of IBM Electronic Business Machines…vital to our nation’s defense…are at work for science, industry and the armed forces, in laboratories, factories and offices, helping to meet urgent demands for greater production.
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