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Photo of the Day

Posted by Current_Yellow7722@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Photo of the Day
The colors take me back.

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eaglebtc@reddit

Does he obsess over the current air temperature and air pressure? Kind of a weird place for a hygrometer.
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ksuwildkat@reddit

Ah you didnt understand the 70s/80s. Everyone had one of those. Temperature, humidity and air pressure. I grew up in California where weather was super easy to predict - just look out into the Pacific and thats tomorrows weather - and I swear every single home had one of these.
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acme_restorations@reddit

What we can’t see is that on the adjacent wall there is a giant hanging wooden fork and spoon.
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Current_Yellow7722@reddit (OP)

This is accurate. Everyone had those.
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blakespot@reddit

Is that Paul Lutus, himself?
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TMWNN@reddit

Security camera monitor, the typical display choice for those wanting something better than a TV set in the early days of personal computers. This is larger than the usual, however, so the monitor can't fit to [one side of the drives as a 9" display can](https://i.sstatic.net/GTNQ2.jpg).
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SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit

Looks like a Sanyo VM-4512, which is what I use with my Apple IIe. Although AFAIK those are whitescreen only, so if that's the case, the fact that it looks like his is greenscreen might must be an artifact of the photo.
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Spiritual-Badger9063@reddit

I’m gonna tell my kids this was running windows 98
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sarajevo81@reddit

Is it even a real image?
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Blah-Blah-Blah-2023@reddit

It looks consistent with the Apple II HGR mode 'MIXED' which has 4 lines of upper case text at the bottom (40 columns) and the rest of the screen is high-res 280 pixel lines. (192-4\*8 rows, whatever that is.) Not sure what program he is running though. Looks like a simple CAD app.
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eaglebtc@reddit

The man on the screen is in an athletic pose. Could be a game?
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Current_Yellow7722@reddit (OP)

Dance choreography
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eaglebtc@reddit

Yes. You don't see the printing rosettes?
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Hjalfi@reddit

I think parent was asking about whether the image on the monitor was real or not. They frequently weren't in old photos due to monitors being very dim and difficult to capture using the same camera settings as the rest of the image.
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eaglebtc@reddit

Well, in this context the displayed image seems real enough. The green hue and intensity looks right for an Apple //e monitor, and it's a simplistic drawing of a man which could have been a real program at the time.
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hyperdream@reddit

Who ever just left their floppies sitting out there in a pile, sleeveless?
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balki_123@reddit

Me ehm, but I was a kid.
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