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Dont think that existed in the 60s mate
by unleaded 3y ago
Dont think that existed in the 60s mate
- userbinator 3y agoThe name doesn't necessarily need to be the date it was created on.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWe had oscilloscopes in the 60's. It could have.
- cf100clunk 3y agoIn a ''For All Mankind'' sorta way, I suppose.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoDon Lancaster talks about "quadrature art" in his Active Filter Cookbook from 1975 — so it was a thing by then. https://www.radiolocman.com/shem/schematics.html?di=151800 https://www.radiolocman.com/shem/schematics.html?di=151800
- codetrotter 3y agoAlso, in the scene events they often have ANSI art competitions on the program but even before colors and computers people were using typewriters to make character based artwork. So in a sense, the ANSI art art form predates computers. Somewhat.
- ClearAndPresent 3y agoWhile not technically a demo scene demo, in 1952 Sandy Douglas pushed the EDSAC to play a game of noughts and crosses (OXO) on its cathode ray tubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO_(video_game)
- mikewarot 3y agoThe DemoScene has existed forever... well before computers, lathes, etc... all the way back to "Look at the way these pictures come to life and dance around when the torch flickers inside this cave"
- vidarh 3y agoThe "scene", no, but demos? Arguably, yes. The demo scene was little but the evolution of demonstrations of tech or art from doing it as e.g. part of a product demonstration or research to doing it as art or for reputation. E.g. the IBM 7094 "singing" Daisy Bell in 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk