Klyith posted:

Cross-Section posted:

LGR did a fun video on one of those:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9dlwebb04Y

Adolf Glitter posted:

I always assumed that the dude in Cathode Ray Dude was a dude called Ray. Nope.
That fact that his name is the same as an old joystick I have somewhere is very fitting though.

He reveals it at the start of his 100,000 sub celebration stream. It's great that he's climbing in popularity, he seems like a very good egg. A 9+ hour stream is well out of my range though, jeez

-edit- Heh, after watching about 5 minutes, I might well end up watching loads of this. The guy is a treasure, and it looks different to 99% of streams

Former Human posted:

I expect James Bond to bust through the ceiling, tear that place up, and sexually assault seduce the token young lady staffer.

Klyith posted:

That fits, 1970s IBM had a loosened tie and a bottle of booze in the design office:





bring back the corporate aesthetic with the disco porn groove background track

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Nothing 'token' about her presence; women made up a far greater proportion of computer programmers back then than they did after the mid-80s.

njsykora posted:

Yeah if I remember the history, programming the computer was considered unskilled manual work (because paper tape), hence it fell to women to basically make the computer do what the men wanted it to. You see this in old footage of Bletchley Park and Colossus too.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

As promotional pictures for the System/360, I'd guess these are from the 60s, not the 70s.

Kia Soul Enthusias posted:

Tried to do a reverse image search
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/system360/impacts/
IBM's website doesn't date the photos, though one of the advertisements they show does say 1964 on one website I found. The movies they mention the 360 being in are 70s films.

edit: It does say "last spring" the 360 was introduced. Those aren't the same photos there exactly but look to be the same series.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

My guess was based on System/370 being announced in 1970 and shipping in 1971. I guess theoretically those promo photos could have been produced in the 70s, but it still seems likely to me that they come from the 60s.

quote:

Hi,

Thanks for your note.

German DIN Standard authorty issued the color-related regulations in the
late 1970s. The specs didn't cite specific colors per se, but referenced
'luminance reflectance' percentages of surfaces in the immediate visual
field of the computer operator. The bottom line was that acceptable DIN
luminance reflectance percentages dictated lighter, pale colors such as
beige.

The purpose was to minimize high visual contrasts (such as black-white)
between white paper source documents and other physical elements in the
operator's immediate workplace visual field. The rationale was that
shifting between high contrasts would cause operator visual fatigue
issues. The research that drove this rationale was later found to be faulty
and the luminance reflectance standard as initially written was eventually
not enforced...but not before affecting the design of many products over
several years.

Note the stronger DIN luminance reflectance percentages applied to surfaces
at the computer desktop workstation, including furniture desktops, computer
monitors, keyboards and processor units in the operator's immediate visual
field. Walls, ceilings and floors in the immediate workstation area were
also affected to some degree

I have material in my archives that references the specific DIN workplace
luminance reflectance issue. However, I'm currently traveling and will not
have access to the data until June.

Once I return, I'll dig through the boxes and forward it to you.

Here's link to current German DIN Standards site:
https://www.din.de/en/about-standards/din-standards

Tom [Hardy, former design person at IBM]

On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 4:06 PM BlankSystemDaemon wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I apologize for emailing you out of the blue on what, for me, is a
> fine Saturday evening, but I'm insatiably curious and hope you can at
> least help me a little.
>
> In the first edition of "Thinkpad: A Different Shade of Blue", written
> Deborah A. Dell and J. Gerry Purdy, published September 1, 1999, on
> page 174, you're quoted as referring to a piece of (West) German
> workplace standard published in the late 70s that is being used as the
> primary source for why all computers during the 90s and early 2000s
> boom of the PC were beige.
>
> This despite the fact that as you correctly observe, both the IBM
> System/370 as well as newer systems like the later NeXT system had
> been a particular shade of what I'd call slate gray, and similar
> systems of the era like the DEC PDP systems coming in many different
> colours, all of which were sold in Germany during the 70s and
> throughout the 90s.
>
> Do you happen to have any memories of this standard, that could be
> used to try and find independent verification of the claim, so that
> you're not the sole source? Anything like a name or year, or even just
> which standards authority would've been responsible for it?
> I've previously tried tracking down independent verification for it
> including talking to Germans who worked in standards bodies in the
> 70s, as well as people who worked in the IT industry throughout the
> 70s and 90s, but without any luck.
>
> Hopefully you can shine some light on things.
>
> Yours,
> BlankSystemDaemon

Thanks Ants posted:

It looks like DIN 13721 could be a starting point, if you can find out what it superseded

Thanks Ants posted:

It looks like DIN 13721 could be a starting point, if you can find out what it superseded

quote:

National foreword
The European Standard EN 12464-1 has been prepared by Working Group 2 Lighting of workplaces of the
CEN/TC 169 Light and Lighting. The German contribution was made by the
Working Committee FNL 4 Indoor Lighting with Artificial Light of the Lighting Standards Committee (FNL).
(FNL) was responsible for the German contribution.
In Germany, lighting in workplaces has hitherto been dealt with in the DIN 5035 series of standards, with the withdrawn DIN 5035-1:1990-06 standard defining the terms and general requirements and the DIN 5035-2:1990-06 standard defining the general requirements.
and the standards DIN 5035-2:1990-09, DIN 5035-3:1988-09, DIN 5035-4:1983-02 and DIN 5035-
7:1988-09 set out the standard values for indoor and outdoor workplaces, the specifications for lighting in hospitals, the special specifications for lighting in teaching facilities and the specifications for lighting in rooms with monitors.
The standard also contains specifications for the lighting of rooms with VDU workplaces and workplaces with VDU support.
With DIN EN 12665:2002-09, the basic terms and criteria for specifying lighting requirements were defined at European level for the first time, with changes compared to DIN 5035-1:1990-06. For this reason, DIN 5035-1:1990-06 was superseded with the publication of
DIN EN 12665:2002-09 was published. It is intended to use the standards contained in the present standard DIN EN 12464-1
and in DIN EN 12665:2002-09 are not taken into account in this standard.
DIN 5035-1:1990-06 will be republished at short notice under the previous standard number DIN 5035-1, and
to revise it subsequently with regard to the advanced state of the art.

Mr.Radar posted:

LOL, Linus didn't want to pay for movers so he got his office staff to do it for him:

Inept posted:

this guy really is the small boss nightmare in a geek package

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I mean, he spent time in a video pontificating about workers comp claims and his wife runs HR. Pretty sure that has never led to a toxic environment before, you're right.

Charles Leclerc posted:

On the one hand, if you're dumb enough to be intimidated by that rinky-dink setup idk what to tell you.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Linus seems like he kinda sucks to actually work for. Which is par for the course in the evolution from "normal youtuber to rich guy"

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

When you actually work there and your bosses wife is the one handling HR stuff, that's a problem.

Kia Soul Enthusias posted:

I do feel like they could take Worksafe (BC's version of OSHA) more seriously. It's a curse of the young to ignore it until it catches up to you.

the talent deficit posted:

ltt does not pay well. neither does floatplane. the people you see on camera who seem happy are happy because they value being on camera more than having decent working conditions. everyone else doesn't last long at ltt

Charles Leclerc posted:

Preeeeeetty sure all of those employees could nope the gently caress out of it and you're all projecting poo poo, but ok. The YouTuber grind mentality which Linus has spent years perfecting is "why pay the guys who know what they're doing when we can hit the red button on a camera and monetise it?"