Original Apple iPhone 1983 - designer Hartmut Esslinger, the same guy who made the Apple IIc computer, came up with this phone/tablet prototype.
More pictures of the original iPhone here.
jstn:
IBM 3270
Dashboard Disco (dashboarddisco.com is available)
(Source: josh)
life:
Computers are now so essential a part of the workings of the world that it’s difficult to imagine a time when they weren’t literally everywhere. But how did these devices, in their almost unimaginable array of shapes and sizes, make their way into the very fabric of our daily lives? Herein, a far-from-exhaustive, rigorously semi-scientific survey of the pivotal technological and cultural moments, the visionaries, and (of course) the machines themselves that transformed computers from novelties into now-ubiquitous necessities. Above: A woman works at an IBM computer in 1955.
With the cross-coast move almost upon us, it’s time for some early Spring Cleaning (aka, throwing away junk that I’ve accumulated over the 26 years.) These are the Ghosts of Gadgets past.
Exhibit A: Adobe 3.0