Software, hardware, art – a blog of process and findings
A screenshot of an ad for IBM Watson, the “cognitive computing” system for decision-making. This seems to lack any sense of hubris, but this ad directs you to a page that suggests you can “start your cognitive business journey” so maybe I’m asking for too much.
Wiring layout for computing using an IBM Tabulator – here to create a statistical report “classifying employees by sex and age group”.
Last year, a really beautiful little show at MoMA had some drawings of computer chips from the 70s and 80s. I went looking for high-res images – couldn’t find any but did unearth this image of an IBM chip die.
A magnetic card, used in the IBM Selectric Composer, circa 1980 (via Wikipedia).
IBM’s “Real Phone”, an example of skeuomorphism, via Wikipedia.
