and/or gallery - pasadena

And/Or Gallery Show #37: Recap Computing History

October 7 - 28, 2023

Thanks to Van Burnham, Brendan Coates, Josh Randall, and Steve and Michele Diederich for loaning/donating to the exhibition.

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[📷 AT&T Merlin telephone photo]

Commodore PET computer, 1978 (courtesy of Van Burnham/Supercade)

Epson LQ-500 dot matrix printer converted into a music instrument
(Dot Matrix Synth by Paul Slocum)

[▶ sound demo]

Kao and Information Art posters (courtesy of Brendan Coates)

[▶ 80s/90s office instrumental playlist]

[📷 photo of IBM 5150

Atari 2600 cartridges, Atari 2600 with Gameline modem, Toshiba Libretto laptop, Mattel Aquarius, Brendan Coates' computer pin collection, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100, RCA Studio II, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, Timex Sinclair, Mattel Intellivision, various game boxes.

[📷 pin collection photo]

Original Tetris running on PDP-11 emulator and Wyse terminal

[▶ demo video]

Atari 400 computer, 1979

Apple IIc computer with KoalaPad and video mixer (exhibit by Josh Randall)

[▶ demo video]

[📷 monitor photo]

[📷 embroidery photo]

TI 99/4a box, Atari Video Pinball box, Video Pro II box, various game boxes, Compaq Portable III, Macintosh Plus, Atari 5200, Super Nintendo with mouse, Colecovision, Sega Genesis with Sega CD and Sega mouse, Commodore VIC-20, Nintendo Famicom, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System

Apple Macintosh SE computer, 1986 (courtesy of Van Burnham/Supercade)

DOS 5.0 Level 1 VHS video by Video Professor (1992)

[▶ archived VHS video]

Atari ST computer, EMAX II sampler, Roland R5 drum machine, VCR, and SMPTE processor.

For this exhibition, new music was produced on this equipment for a segment of the 1992 CGI video Beyond The Mind's Eye. The re-scored video segment can be viewed at the link to the right.

[▶ audio/video demo]

[▶ audio only]

[📷 Emax II photo]

Zorba computer, 1982

[📷 TI-99/4a photo]

[📷 5-line telephone photo]

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III computer, 1980
Invasion Force by Radio Shack, 1979

Compaq 486/25 computer running DOS and Windows 3.1.

[📷 telephone photo]

Tandy Color Computer 3, 1986
El Bandito by Dragon Data, 1984

Commodore Amiga FPGA emulation system
Tass Times in Tonetown by Activision, 1986

Odyssey 2, TRS-80 Color Computer, commercial compilation, Virtual Boy, and Vectrex.

Josh Randall created a compilation of vintage computer commercials, which can viewed at the link to the right.

[▶ computer commercial compilation]

Vectrex with light pen and Art Master

[▶ demo video]

Vectrex game console, 1983

[▶ demo video]

Nintendo Virtual Boy game console

Commodore 64 musical instrument with Cynthcart software.

[▶ sound demo]

Atari 2600 game console running Synthcart music software, and Atari Video Music visualizer.

[▶ demo video]

Virtual Boy, Vectrex, Commodore 64 Cynthcart, Atari 2600 Synthcart, Atari Video Music, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Radio Shack Color Computer 1

[📷 Odyssey 2 photo]

[📷 Color Computer 1 photo]