Petition to bring back ? rainbow computer logos
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 13:08:04 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 13:08:02 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @mayor ikr
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Derek 🌈 (mayor@smugglersbbs.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 13:08:03 JST Derek 🌈 @thomasfuchs Those are some dang good looking computers
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Silversong (silversong@brontosin.space)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 02:33:14 JST Silversong @thomasfuchs My partner has been looking for a while for a long, thin, rainbow gradient decal to put above the keyboard on his Linux laptop. I could probably commission this if I knew where to look.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 02:33:14 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @Silversong possibly https://www.slickwraps.com/
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JP Etcheber (numbertheory@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 15:38:51 JST JP Etcheber @thomasfuchs Apple going monochrome was really disappointing.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 09:06:23 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @codinghorror 🧑🍳💋
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Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 09:06:24 JST Jeff Atwood @thomasfuchs WE ACTUALLY DID THIS!! 🙌 https://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/the-discourse-logo-a-system-of-rainbows/
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Eric Stein � (toba@zeroes.ca)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 12:33:03 JST Eric Stein � @thomasfuchs like this???
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 12:33:03 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @toba 1. Those are apps, not computers and 2. Icons should at least try to convey a meaning and not be bad interpretations of Dadaism
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:38:56 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @ve3qbz well, people with fingers come to mind
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Scott VE3QBZ (ve3qbz@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:38:58 JST Scott VE3QBZ @thomasfuchs That ZX is so good looking. Who wouldn't want to work with that machine.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:25 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @Jason_Dodd that’s a Commodore PET diskette drive; they didn’t have the 1541 yet so they used that as a photo. Doesn’t even work with the 64
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:26 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ The Commodore 64 had it for its logo as well, at first only on the packaging but later as little stripes on the computer badge itself
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Jason_Dodd (jason_dodd@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:26 JST Jason_Dodd @thomasfuchs I've had quite a few c= addons in my day but I don't know what the added on the right side of that pic is. Guess I've not seen many boxes!
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:27 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ Hmm I should really fix the colors in that Amiga photo above, but anyway here it is on the case and monitor
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:27 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ There's even variations on the rainbow, e.g. the Tandy CoCo had a variation, a red-green-blue graphic design
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jeffluszcz (jeffluszcz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:29 JST jeffluszcz @Jason_Dodd @thomasfuchs I think that's a 4000 or 8000 series external floppy drive https://i0.wp.com/www.commodore.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/commodore-complete-product-line-pg7.jpg?fit=623%2C827&ssl=1
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:51:29 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @jeffluszcz @Jason_Dodd for the first few months at least they didn’t have the disk drives yet (maybe waiting if the machine is a success?), so they just threw some PET peripherals on the box (this box is for my Commodre 64 with serial #10550)
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:01:40 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @kaelef I’ve a Atari catalog from the time (also the 800 in the flesh), really fun design
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Kaelef :welp: (kaelef@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:01:41 JST Kaelef :welp: @thomasfuchs I have the actual "fuji" logo in this style somewhere, too. Loved it. This is from the late 800/400 era.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:01:42 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ ATARI logo on computer and computer software packaging on the late 70s/early 80s also used a rainbow logotype
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:01:43 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ The NeXT logo is sort of a riff on the earlier rainbow logo, lil' bit more neon and a segue into the 90s
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:01:43 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ Even some otherwise boring business software used rainbow color logos back in the 1980s and 90s
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:01:44 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ Even floppy disks came in rainbow
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Doctor Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 14:07:09 JST Doctor Popular @thomasfuchs bring back games with rainbows too! https://docpop.org/2009/12/pitfall-covered-version/
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Palangu (palangu@h4.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 14:07:18 JST Palangu @thomasfuchs not just computer logos...
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madcap :ciberlandia: (madcap@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 14:07:20 JST madcap :ciberlandia: @thomasfuchs :amigacheck:
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