Lost Andy Warhol works recovered from Amiga floppy disks - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Ragekipz;44634949]That Valerie Solanas lady was way crazy. She founded a group called SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men). Can't get more misandrist than that.[/QUOTE] solanas was not the most mentally stable person in the world [editline]24th April 2014[/editline] she was ever so paranoid that people were trying to backstab her and steal her work

[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;44634664]at least post the drawing too, it's pretty awesome [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Moon_Art_PBS.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] What is so awesome about this that I'm failing to see

[QUOTE=Complifused;44635036]What is so awesome about this that I'm failing to see[/QUOTE] How many other people have sent doodles of dicks to the moon?

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44634987]I don't know the exact details, but apparently the computer he used was an Amiga 1000, maybe he saved it in some strange Amiga 1000 only format? Considering there isn't more information on it, it's only speculation from here. Considering it's almost 30 years old, and only 700,000 were sold in North America, maybe it was difficult to find a working one?[/QUOTE] on closer inspection of the news source, it says [url=http://www.fileformat.info/format/pictor/egff.htm].pic[/url] format. I don't know what the problem was really, there was probably just more to it than we realise

[QUOTE=TMBGFan;44635113]How many other people have sent doodles of dicks to the moon?[/QUOTE] Well, Bill Clinton might have a doodle of just such a thing among his old briefing papers, though I dunno if that's what you want.

[QUOTE=Andokool12;44634237]I don't understand how they couldn't have any record of this[/QUOTE] Early(-ish) computing is a fucking joke to be honest. We still have no idea what we're doing, but back then they had absolutely zero idea what they were doing in terms of future generations looking back on their stuff. Documentation for a lot of early formats and programs is sparse to non-existent, outside of research topics anyway.

[QUOTE=ChrisR;44634305]You forgot the other two: [img]http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1_Andy_Warhol_Andy2_1985_AWF_475px.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Did Andy accidentally help pioneer glitch art? :v: [QUOTE=Turnips5;44634925]it's not like people don't still have amigas. they have one of the most dedicated followings of any old computer, the amiga 500 in particular had an enormous cult following[/QUOTE] There is still a fair amount of underground electronic musicians who use Amigas as trackers.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;44635149]Early(-ish) computing is a fucking joke to be honest. We still have no idea what we're doing, but back then they had absolutely zero idea what they were doing in terms of future generations looking back on their stuff. Documentation for a lot of early formats and programs is sparse to non-existent, outside of research topics anyway.[/QUOTE] Not to mention that during the earliest generations of computing, you had to build your own parts and memory boards diode by diode, and in some cases, enter code using binary switches especially in their primordial infancy.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44635185]Not to mention that during the earliest generations of computing, you had to build your own parts and memory boards diode by diode, and in some cases, enter code using binary switches especially in their primordial infancy.[/QUOTE] but that's more from the late '50s, waaay before 1985 basically there's 4 generations of computer technology: 1st generation is during/post WW2, using vacuum tubes; 2nd is mid '50s to about mid '60s where instead of vacuum tubes transistors were used (but still as discrete elements); 3rd generation is till the early '70s, then ICs were introduced, packing some of those transistors into more complex building blocks; finally 4th generation is from the early '70s till the present, where instead of separate ICs, most stuff is packaged into one microprocessor on the software side things kinda started to get into shape (somewhat) after the 1968 NATO software engineering conference, where it was established that there's a "software crisis" because literally nobody knows what the hell they are doing, especially for big projects [editline]24th April 2014[/editline] i say somewhat because as much as we can sort of write working software now, with the many levels of abstraction present (and not all of them free from errors) software engineering is turtles all the way down

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44635185]Not to mention that during the earliest generations of computing, you had to build your own parts and memory boards diode by diode, and in some cases, enter code using binary switches especially in their primordial infancy.[/QUOTE] And then there was [URL="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html"]Mel Kaye, legendary programmer[/URL] who [I]hand-optimized[/I] machine code to execute as fast as physically possible in the constraints of the storage medium, better than compilers. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR94D4jXAaE#t=1508"]QI's second series also had a little bit on old Andy.[/URL] I didn't embed it because I've got a specific time code, and it's near the end of a 28-minute episode. Also my source about Andy's undies.

the amiga is so cool

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44635185]Not to mention that during the earliest generations of computing, you had to build your own parts and memory boards diode by diode, and in some cases, enter code using binary switches especially in their primordial infancy.[/QUOTE] Some interesting design choices before transistors came along was to create modular logic gates made from vacuum tubes and piece them together to form more complicated circuits on large frames. It seemed strange to see one of these boards and think, 'These things are nanometres large now'.