Just thought I’d share with you this very rare glimpse of 19th Century computing.
Painted in 1879 by Edgar Degas, Edmond Duranty Working at his Computer is a remarkable and very forward-looking work. Of course the only part of the computer that’s shown, is the mouse pad …
You can see the original work in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland.
It’s no wonder that only the mousepad is shown: Edgar Degas and Edmond Duranty were having a video conference and Edgar Degas simply took a screenshot.
After several problems with my FP3, probably caused by having opened it, and fixed thanks to being able to take it apart to clean it, I remembered an episode of the Simpsons in which Homer toasts to alcohol: the origin and, at the same time, the solution to all his problems!
Thanks, the socks article has a link to this here …
If a simple (and small) microfibre cloth for 19 USD isn’t fun, then I don’t know.
Even more fun: It seems to sell extremely well.
And even more fun: iFixit did a teardown of it …
And I brought some old cloths of my grandmother to the clothing collection for recycling just this weekend. Had I known that I could’ve shred them up and sold them for 10 bucks a piece for display cleaning… xD