it was twenty years ago today...

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:58 am

... but still on my wall

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:46 am

What does the wall behind the picture look like, Astro?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:07 am

ten years of smoking

petal · Post by **petal** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:02 am

I think that Samplaire may be referring to the toilet-paper-look-alike-look on the poster itself......

Thomas

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:47 pm

I hope it wasn't tobaco.

Post by **hubird** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:06 pm

In a mac magazin here in Holland was a great review of the Lisa mac, the first succesfull consumer mac.
It was completely written AS IF it was 1985 (?) at the time of writing, pretending to know nothing about later computer devellopments.
It was quite objective, the mins where analized too, also they compared it to the state the pc was at that time.
Sure they were enthousiast, the Lisa was a novum, and it let you grab things with your hands (mouse)

Very nice to read, knowing what we know now

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Let There Be Music!

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Post by **hubird** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:09 pm

BTW, ever seen such a innovative ad for a computer?
Pure attitude

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:25 pm

Braincell, I'm afraid it was tobacco

there must be something wrong in your source, Hubird. The LISA was indeed the first generally available computer with a mouse driven GUI (about $16 K), but that was a couple of years ago, around 82/83, but with no Mac software yet.

Not a big success, financially

but much praised from engineers and scientists.

It later became part of the Mac product line under the name of Macintosh XL and was eqipped (usually) with a harddisk.
Depending on the startup software it booted either LISA or MacOS.
You HAD to aquire such a machine if you wanted to develope Mac software...

Yeah, they invented those crayon-like brush strokes still hip in todays ads and the Unix command line was considered a spell from the dark side of the force

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:53 am

thanks Astro

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:47 am

On 2004-01-25 09:07, astroman wrote:
ten years of smoking

..so it´s time to stop smoking now

i stoped smoking 3 years ago and i´m happy with it!
(a small cookie from time to time is enough for me

)

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:47 am

Were Apple & Ikea partners back then?

Royston

Post by **hubird** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:53 am

No it was Rietveld who designed everything on Apple, before WW2 already! :lol

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:38 pm

Andre, I happily gave up cigarettes about six years ago - but I have to admit that I do love cigars from time to time

I'm definetely not addicted to nicotin anymore as I can take or leave that stuff arbitrarily.

Instead I've become somewhat addicted to oxygen once I felt my body relieve from 20 years of subconscious intoxination.
I'm doing a lot of sports (if time allows) and it was mighty impressive how strength and endurance improved within only 1 year without smoking cigarettes

So I gave up something - but got another thing back - that way it worked smoothly and I never even consider asking someone for a cigarette

The poster is a really funny one, but the details are of course not visible in that small shot.
It is totally stylish and arranged with incredible precision, yet the floor isn't what it pretends to be:
It looks terracotta-like, but in fact they just threw in a dozen plates of something you'd use for isolation below wood floors

Call it art, design and improvisation - or just laugh about the result, which certainly did cost a small fortune...

cheers, Tom

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:04 pm

On 2004-01-26 11:53, hubird wrote:

No it was Rietveld who designed everything on Apple, before WW2 already! :lol

some pretty cool stuff - never would have guessed the age of the furniture and houses

http://www.geocities.com/gerritrietveld/

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:18 pm

damn, delicious shocking as always, that chair!
and indeed, amazing, 1918...
Hmm, we seem to have a name as disign country in the world, guess there is a history involved

Btw, amazing, the colors of the poster are very exactly the same as with the chair, at least on my old Sony screen

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Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:29 am

astroman wrote:

http://www.geocities.com/gerritrietveld/

Wow! I'd never heard of him before. What happened to good taste, design and functionality between 1918 and now?

Royston

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:18 am

as this is a thread of memories, my first ever recording experiance was in a studio build in one of Rietveld's houses, in a small village called Baambrugge, now more then 25 years ago....great to think of that again. I'm going to look if I can find that tape.

regards

Post by **hubird** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:46 pm

On 2004-01-27 10:18, virtualstudio wrote:
, my first ever recording experiance was in a studio build in one of Rietveld's houses, in a small village called Baambrugge, now more then 25 years ago....

wow!

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:15 am

Some members of the nederlands group De Styl cofounded the Bauhaus and became really big ones, like Mies van der Rohe.