There are so many fascinating and wonderful things going on in this news report from 1981. For starters, it’s about getting the newspaper on computers, so who do they send to cover the story? The ...

The 1981 book School, Work and Play (World of Tomorrow) features this beautiful two-page spread. Apparently, thanks to computers, there’s no crime in the future outside of the computerized variety.

This holographic computer game of the future is from the 1981 book Tomorrow’s Home by Neil Ardley. The caption explains, “A home computer game of the future has solid images of spaceships that move in ...

Newspapers that you can read on your computer at home? Who woulda thunk it? Apparently, 1981 computer programmers, as shown by the video below. (Check out that old skool modem. Is it an 8-track?) The ...

On June 21, 1981, IBM retired its “STRETCH” 7030 computer, a machine considered a failure by some but that brought about tremendous innovation. The 7030 premiered in 1961, performing at speeds ...

In 1981, Robert Tinney illustrated a cover for Byte magazine of someone wearing a smart watch. The illustration is funny now in hindsight, but even when Tinney designed the cover it was meant to be a ...

The Saturn V rocket that put Man on the Moon was – and still is – the most complex (and complicated) vehicle ever devised and one of the most intricate man-made objects ever. The Cadillac V8-6-4 ...

Before “Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8″ began, if I was forced to choose only one night of the series to attend, my selection would have been night ...