One of the first pictures ever taken of an Apple computer. Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop snapped this photo of an Apple-1 in 1976 using his Polaroid camera. After some arm twisting by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Terrell’s Byte Shop became the first dealer for an upstart company that has since gotten a little bigger.

midcenturymodernfreak:

Taken from Raquel Welch’s eponymous 1970 television special. The sculptures featured were part of the Ruta de la Amistad public sculpture project at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Via

David Letterman uses a vocoder to place the largest food order ever by a half human talk show host while Suzanne Ciani gives him a demonstration of her Prophet 5.

(Source: yodagibb)

A stack of Pac at Jamie’s Flea Market in Amherst, Ohio.

The Art of Glitch  :  PBS

Discovering Electronic Music  :  1983

Bach is sequenced, flipped, beeped and blipped.

Boys and their toys.

(Source: massmirage, via 1980th)

(Source: vazetti, via yodagibb)

hollyhocksandtulips:

Columbia phonographs, 1957

NASA’s Spacesuit Evolution  :  Bill Smyth  :  Apollo Suit Test  :  1968

(Source: highgradenobush, via vivipedraglio)

Delia Derbyshire  :  Mattachin  :  Early Abstractions by Harry Smith