Marcin Wichary

We've used the title this post is given on https://aresluna.org/. (Submitted title was "Not mine, but it's a website where you can use a segment display")

On the author's Flickr, the first image is in the "DASA Working World Exhibition" album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/55316837619/in/album-7217772033… It's in Dortmund: https://www.dasa-dortmund.de/en/ The author also has a list of his favorite tech museums: https://aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/

The page referenced in the article, Frame of Preference [1], is such a great example of this feature. When I read it last week, interacting with a live Mac OS system while reading the post felt like magic. [1] https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

This reminds me of Marcin Wichary's recreation of a clock on Polish TV: https://aresluna.org/polish-tv-clock/ He has a great writeup about it here: https://medium.com/the-outtake/the-clock-85e8e3a50e4b

What a wonderful site. A lot more vintage apple ads https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/apple Love this particular one that talks about obtaining stock quote, make travel arrangement, and scan New York Times. In 1983! https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/apple/…

The real article getting to the point the author is trying to make is this one https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

Nice. Reminds me of Frame of Preference, with embedded emulators for all major MacOS, placed on top of images of the machines they ran on, with effects to simulate the grain and color of those machines, and with scripted "goals" and easter eggs. https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

This isn't even their tour de force, try https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

ha :) https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/1jp9juj/i_turned_a_105seg… and from that discussion: https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/ in Vienna we have a 66 segment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vienna_u-bahn_display_closeup.jpg

Someone made a JavaScript version of Glassner's 55 segment design along with a dozen others that's fun to play with: https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/

This reminded me of https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/ prev hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419

Probably too soon to repost that incredible history of Macintosh settings panels with embedded emulated Macs from a couple of months ago, but probably not too soon to bring it up again: https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

If you want to play with the actual Control Panels within various emulated Macintoshes (all in the context of a gorgeously written and illustrated history of Macintosh settings), have a look here: https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

What an incredible application of the infinite-mac project. I'm eager to learn how the in-emulator events were dispatched to the page script. Edit: good lord, what's it doing with these hotspots? Is all the checkbox progression outside of the emulators, in "screen space"? By analyzing specific pixels in the current emu framebuffer?! https://aresluna.org/site/scripts-frame-of-preference.js?v60

Fonts with 'routed' in their names are often a good place to look for this - they're named thus because they were designed to be scribed/engraved with a router, so very frequently have a constant width. (and if you're up for a rabbit hole, https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/ )

The article links to an ‘appendix’ of known digital versions, though it's easy to miss: https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/recreations…

Framerate is one thing, but you should consider typing latency. At 5fps, you get an average of 200ms of extra latency from the display alone, on top of everything else (keyboard, OS, application, GPU, etc). https://aresluna.org/keyboard-secrets/typing-delay/ EDIT: oh and remember, you're going to get an awful lot of perceptible jitter, depending on how close to the exact time of refresh you've hit the key.

I wish I could get an Apple Card issued today that looked like this. https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/apple/…

The original Apple Card: https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/apple/… *note: you must be a homeowner to finance a Macintosh. (fine print at bottom of page)

Page 14 is a very pleasant read in terms of marketing copy. https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/apple/…

Someone made a screensaver of sorts using the logos: https://aresluna.org/1985-tech-logos/

Wow, the props to the author for digging deep! > Looking inside of the display, I found labels identifying the make and model. The signs were designed and manufactured by Trans-Lite, Inc., a company based in Milford, Connecticut that specialised in transport signage from 1959 until its acquisition by the Nordic firm Teknoware in 2012. After lots of amateur detective work, and with the help from an anonymous Reddit user in a Connecticut community group, I was connected with Gary Wallberg, Senior Engineer at Trans-Lite and the person responsible for the design of these very signs back in 1999. Few years back, we had a work thread about this exact Muni Metro font and the designers brought up segmented types. We never got as far as the author in finding the source, but did bring up other systems with similar typefaces. NYC has their own called R142A: https://www.nyctransitforums.com/topic/55346-r142a-mosaic-lcd-question… And here's one inspired by Spain's transit system: https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/