MEDIUM Science

“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I ever had.” Work by Julianne Aguilar (http://hykul.org), 2015.

Norsk Data brochure showing the Nord 10 16-bit minicomputer product line, circa 1973.

Evans & Sutherland Line Drawing System (LDS-1). Vector graphics processor. Circa 1969.

Large crystal of potassium dideuterium phosphate (DKDP) exhibiting optical vaporwave characteristics.

Large crystal of monopotassium phosphate (potassium dihydrogen phosphate, i.e. KH2PO4) demonstrating optical birefringence.

Pris from Bladerunner vectorized and snapped to grid of increasing size.

Kaypro 10 personal computer, circa 1983.

A microtarget imploding under the beam of the NOVA laser, an inertial confinement fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ca. 2002).

Hand drawn printed circuit board from Data General NOVA 3 16-bit minicomputer, circa 1975.

Front panel of Data General NOVA 3, 16-bit minicomputer circa 1975.

Data General Eclipse front panel, ca. 1980

Microscopic view of Data General’s microEclipse microprocessor, circa 1980/

Data General-One (DG1) portable computer, circa 1984.

Monoclinic copper (II) acetate crystals grown on copper wire

Hewlett Packard 9845C desktop computer advertisement demonstrating CAD software circa 1980.

Promotional materials for Hewlett Packard 9845C desktop computer, circa 1980. The color graphics capability of this machine was used to develop assets for the film Wargames in 1983.

Hewlett Packard 9845C desktop computer and light pen, demonstrating PCB layout software circa 1980.