[HN Gopher] Office Life in the 1980's (Vintage Photos) (2019)
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Office Life in the 1980's (Vintage Photos) (2019)
Author : accrual
Score : 42 points
Date : 2023-11-26 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| bmitc wrote:
| Seems kind of nice, especially knowing that computers were used
| to augment human work rather than something to slave humans to.
| This is clear, from these photos at least, since the computer is
| not the primary mode of interaction between people and either
| things (like paper) or other people.
| genman wrote:
| I presume that in many cases the paper was everything. Remember
| the term "paper pusher"?
| jimjimjim wrote:
| 1980's. vintage. Well, I guess. Technically it counts as vintage,
| but it makes me feel like the cryptkeeper.
| ncr100 wrote:
| /s Who is the cryptkeeper? OH a 1990's tele-vision puppet who
| would scare children!
|
| Being old [and i'm hardly that] gets tiring sometimes. Too much
| to noodle upon.
| phatfish wrote:
| They seem to have gone all in with the aesthetic and used a
| server from the 80s too.
| cheema33 wrote:
| Box of floppies on many disks. They were so common. I had many of
| them. Floppies were a very stubborn technology. They wouldn't die
| as much as I wished them to. And for the longest time, they were
| the only way to flash BIOS on many systems.
|
| Floppies, CDs, DVDs, PCMCIA cards, modems, CGA cards, MFM
| controllers, mechanical mice, ISA bus, parallel port, internal
| combustion engine... Things I used a lot. But do not miss at all.
| Good riddance.
| pixl97 wrote:
| God floppies were the worst. When you're on disk 18 of 20 and
| you get a bad sector... good times.
|
| Oh, and the once or twice a month you had to clean your mice
| balls because to much crust was building up inside them.
|
| As many complaints as I have about wireless and bluetooth they
| are still far more reliable than most of that 80s-start of 2000
| stuff unless it was eye wateringly expensive equipment.
| baz00 wrote:
| Gah I remember that. When I was first playing around with
| Linux at home I didn't have an Internet connection and the
| only way I could get it was relaying floppies back and
| forward from the university campus. This was about a mile
| walk from home. Of course I learned to verify the floppies
| very quickly after the first round trip back to the campus
| with a duff one. Also there was a pub half way which was a
| serious latency issue.
|
| I'd used floppies for years before and they were probably all
| half duff but I'd never noticed.
| jacquesm wrote:
| > Also there was a pub half way which was a serious latency
| issue.
|
| Well, at least the packets got forwarded eventually.
| baz00 wrote:
| On at least one occasion they got left in the pub!
| jacquesm wrote:
| That makes it even funnier!
|
| I once bought an ex undercover police vehicle that came
| with a folder that somehow had been forgotten under the
| passenger seat. Contents: a bunch of (paper) files, an
| identikit and a manual on how to take fingerprints.
|
| I think you had the better excuse.
| baz00 wrote:
| Oh that's terrible but definitely something I'd expect
| from the police!
| jacquesm wrote:
| You'd think they have a sanitization process for ex
| police property but apparently it isn't all that good or
| maybe just a genuine mistake.
| ourmandave wrote:
| Sneaker net
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| The internet usage that keeps you in shape
| merek wrote:
| It strikes me that their workspaces looked a mess from all the
| paper.
|
| Then I look at my workspace, 10s of browser tabs, countless open
| windows, never enough desktop space.
| fbdab103 wrote:
| Wayback Machine:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230330195500/https://weare.gur...
| zabzonk wrote:
| serial dec vtxxx and adm terminals - i remember it all so well.
| and actually, i quite liked it!
| jacquesm wrote:
| Be sure to check out the drafting tables link at the bottom of
| the page (or this one, if it times out):
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230408160205/https://weare.gur...
| bradfa wrote:
| No one is smoking?
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| I was a kid of the eighties (born in the seventies) and my best
| friend's father was a businessman and he'd constantly be working.
| So his office was _also_ in his car where he already had.. a
| cellular phone! (I 'm not even sure the contraption "cellphone"
| already existed).
|
| So on the weekend when I'd go to the country side with my friend,
| we'd basically see this (he was always on the phone with either
| employees or clients so we had to keep quiet in the car) and it
| felt like being in the future:
|
| https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/SF-s-first-cellula...
|
| He even had the same haircut.
| Aardwolf wrote:
| Would love to visit that, but the cigarette smoke everywhere
| would probably ruin it
| lnsru wrote:
| I guess that's how my grandfather got lung cancer. Everybody
| were smoking in the office. He was the single one who never
| touched a cigarette.
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