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Somebody heard they should add a mouse to the computer, but this was the closest thing they could find.
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I remember the first time I read about computer mice. The magazine cover could be translated as "goodbye to the keyboard", and there this picture of a box with just 3 buttons. I saw that and thought :wtf:? And proceed to ignore it for a few more years.
http://static.efetividade.net/img/xtra/MS93-104755.png
edit: that full magazine is archived here for some reason: http://files.datassette.org/revistas/micro_sistemas_093.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=1349
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OMG WTF is this typesetting :interrobang: [image]
Who in their incredibly small mind thought it was a good idea to waste so much space in this manner?
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Also, this: [image] Is not how diskettes work.
I do enjoy all the free BASIC code samples though.
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Sure it's not just a broken laser printer?
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Not at all. This is an assumption based on the straight lines bordering the page, and that all of the rest of the pages are fine. That's a pretty interesting failure though, if it is.
I can't think of too many things that could make it print like this (skewed, not just rotated).
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Setting a skew is pretty trivial at the postscript level. Just set the right transform matrix. You have to compute that matrix yourself, but it's hardly much more than high school math. (PS is nice like that.) Not that it makes it a good idea, but it does appear to be deliberate and sure isn't particularly terrible.
That's a very old disk form factor in the other image. I've not used any like that in the last 25 years or so…
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TIL Postscript is good for intentional typesetting. I thought we were talking about
IKR? To my knowledge, I don't think there were ever any floppy-Floppy disks that had an opaque center that would have that kind of effect, unless the artist just simply didn't know...