Computing Phone Cases - iPhone and Android
Description: Zork is a text-based fantasy adventure game series that was first released in 1977 under the title Dungeon. The game was made for PCs, the first version being made for the PDP-10. The game features no graphics or art, and is entirely text based, playing out like an interactive book. The developers, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titles—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master—which were released commercially for a range of personal computers beginning in 1980. Players take on the role of an unnamed adventurer who is trapped in a dungeon called The Great Underground Empire and type in contextual commands to escape the dangers of the dungeon.
Description: A tribute to the dawn of interactive computing, built around a weathered mid-century laboratory aesthetic inspired by the pioneering machines of Maynard, Massachusetts. Vintage computer cabinets, reel-to-reel hardware, CRT displays, technical schematics, and old-school data processing typography give this piece the character of a forgotten engineering department shirt from the early digital age. Made for retro computing collectors, programmers, engineers, computer history enthusiasts, and anyone who misses the era when computers filled a room and every blinking light meant something.
Description: Before the internet, computer magazines printed whole programs line by line and you typed them in yourself. This page has its own made up BASIC listing, a small moon lander picture, a coffee ring and one circled typo in line 340, with SYNTAX ERROR IN 340 written next to it in red pen. Four hours of typing, one typo. For everyone who learned to program this way, and for the people who sat next to them. Printing on a light garment? Here is the light-shirt version: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/100464547-typed-it-in-from-a-magazine-retro-computing-light-
Description: Before the laptop, before the algorithm, before any of this — there was a man in front of a machine made of gears and punched tape, convinced that thinking could be mechanical. He was right. This illustration puts Alan Turing exactly where he belongs: confident, hands on hips, in front of the machine that changed everything. The cartoon rendering celebrates the work. The Bombe, the binary, the chess problem that became a metaphor for intelligence itself. No apology. Just the father of modern computing, standing in front of his life's work. The machine runs. The rest is history.
Description: This is a design that displays the text "A:>format c:" in a simple white font on a black background. The style is reminiscent of old command prompt interfaces, creating a sense of retro technology usage. The text "A:>" is on the left, followed by the word "format" and then "c:".
Description: Remember when you had to click a button to turn of your PC? "It's Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer". The pixelated effect is on purpose!
It's Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer Phone Case
by MalcolmDesigns Retro Merch | Movies | Retrogaming | Saturday Morning Cartoons | Computers
$23
Description: Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet.
Description: Laugh off developer burnout with this witty cartoon core illustration depicting a programmer skeleton coding late at night. Complete with a glowing desktop screen and a floating error 404 cloud, the character admits "I have no idea what I'm doing." Perfect for software engineers, IT experts, and computer science students.
Description: CompUSA was a retailer and reseller of personal computers, consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. Starting with one brick-and-mortar store in 1984 under the name Soft Warehouse, by the '90s CompUSA had grown into a nationwide big box chain with at least 229 locations at it's peak. Crushed by competition from other brick-and-mortar retailers, corporate oversight which was out of touch with evolving market realities, and a failure to make a strong transition to online sales, CompUSA began closing what they classified as low performing locations in 2006. By 2008, only 16 locations were left, and by 2012, the remaining stores had all been sold off.
Description: Palm Computing, Inc. was founded in 1992 in Sunnyvale, California. The company was originally started to write software for the Zoomer, a consumer PDA sold under the Tandy name. While Palm provided the PIM software, the PEN/GEOS operating system was provided by Geoworks. The Zoomer failed commercially, but Palm continued generating revenue by selling synchronization software for other devices, and the Graffiti handwriting recognition software for the Newton MessagePad. Moving beyond software, the firm would go on to be responsible for numerous handheld devices including the Pre and Pixi, as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Other products include the Pilot 1000, Palm Pilot Pro, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and, Tungsten.
