How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers | Literary Hub
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How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers | Literary Hub

“Computer advertisements from the 1950s were divided between two dominant styles: The first was the so-called shirt sleeve style of ad—a holdover from the 1930s and 40s—which tended to include several paragraphs of sales copy, sometimes in the form of a testimonial from a scientist or CEO, alongside decorative headline text and various overlapping elements—the overall result of which was a busy design and a hard sell. The second …”

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Socialism's DYI Computer | Tribune Magazine
Irina T. Irina T.

Socialism's DYI Computer | Tribune Magazine

“The reason for this resurgent interest in Galaksija is perhaps due to the fact that this exciting and little-known episode in computer-science history is pregnant with counterfactual potential. Galaksija embodies a destratification of today’s technological hierarchy, a tacit ideological assertion that computing machinery should be for the masses, cheap and available to everyone, and that neither money nor technical know-how need be barriers to entry.”

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