Tapecasting from my Amiga…
Engadget has “1985” as one of its language modes.
View the world’s leading gadget weblog through the retro lens, as they review the latest in shoulder-mounted mobile phones, GPS receivers the size of a TV set, hot new TI calculators, the amazing Amiga 1000 with its 4096 colors and animation capabilities, the first-ever consumer laser printer and - bonus! - “tapecasting.”
Illustrated with 16-colour bitmaps and radical ASCII art, it’s the cutting edge as it used to be.
Seriously though - hard to believe how far we’ve come in only twenty years: the kind of tech we casually keep in our pockets today outpowers all the computing power and data storage in the Apollo space program. (And today’s space shuttle, too, which still operates to 1975 design standards.)
Excuse me, I have to go buy some wraparound reflective sunglasses and Ocean Pacific T-shirts now.
August 26, 2005 5:57 PM
