I particularly love the last picture - low resolution announcement board has links to web sites in it....
For those who are young enough never to have seen one of these, here are some details:
- The reason for the garish colours is back in the mid 80's, these systems were limited to about 4-16 colours depending on the system used. There are only so many look and feel options when your choice of colours is BRIGHT BLUE, BRIGHT RED, OBNOXIOUS GREEN, BLACK AND WHITE.
- You'll notice that all the letters are capitalized. This was pretty common in early computer systems - the resolution was so low that trying to display lower case letters made them hard to read.
- There was only one choice of font and it was always that big blocky font that you see here.
Maybe we should along with the rural broadband fund establish a government program to upgrade small towns cable access feeds so they can have access to those fancy TV guide scrolling ad versions we have in the big cities?
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No, we shouldn't do that. Let's keep the Commodore 64's humming along for another 25 years.
lol... I grew up in kincardine
I saw this last year when I was in town, moving the local radio station (95.5 myFM) to new studios... reminds me of the old Lindsay Comcable days back home. This C64 bulletin board thingy's probably gone now that Rogers owns KCTV.
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