giz 79
Gadgets
Yes, Good Old Retro 1979 Seemed Fun (But It Really Sucked!)
2:15AM Brian Lam | Writing about technology as it was thirty years ago, I realised that 1979 was perhaps the last year before a digital tsunami hit, sweeping clean the analogue era that had persisted for decades. More »
Music
‘79 Rumour: Leaked Docs Of “Compact Disc” Audio Format Using LASERS
11:00PM Brian Lam | From 1979: A source “close to the matter” claims this document outlines a future Audio format that would utilise a tapeless design, and *snort* use lasers as some sort of record needle. Sounds like Bullshit to me. More »
Gadgets
6:00AM Brian Lam | The network started to breathe in the 70’s. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC’s labs by Boing Boing Gadgets. Dag Spicer, numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: More »
The Network Before The Internet
6:00AM Brian Lam | The network started to breathe in the 70’s. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC’s labs by Boing Boing Gadgets. Dag Spicer, numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: More » 
Cameras
Digital Cams Haven’t Caught Up To Film’s Resolution: Does It Matter?
8:46PM Brian Lam | Lenses being equal, a large format 8×10 piece of film can capture the equivalent of 800 Megapixels. Just saying. But does it matter? Discuss! More »
Computers
What Is This?
3:31PM Brian Lam | Q: What classic computer and Apple II competitor opened its steel case up like a car hood? And was named after a domestic rock toy popular at the time? More »
Design
4:00AM Wilson Rothman | Hartmut Esslinger’s Frog Design made WEGA/Sony’s electronics fetish items, and then designed the “Snow White” language the Mac used. He’s a design legend and an author. Here he tells us about the challenges of designing, then and now. More »
Frog Design’s Hartmut Esslinger On Design In 1979
4:00AM Wilson Rothman | Hartmut Esslinger’s Frog Design made WEGA/Sony’s electronics fetish items, and then designed the “Snow White” language the Mac used. He’s a design legend and an author. Here he tells us about the challenges of designing, then and now. More »
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