Comments on: Computerliebe 1983 http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 11:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: SooGuy http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778017 SooGuy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778017 Okay is it just me or are those E.T. sheets on the bed. Look under his left hand it looks like the words E.T. in the same font as the movie. That's makes the photo all the more creepier - they are obviously doing it in their kids bed on their kids computer! Okay is it just me or are those E.T. sheets on the bed. Look under his left hand it looks like the words E.T. in the same font as the movie. That’s makes the photo all the more creepier – they are obviously doing it in their kids bed on their kids computer!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778282 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778282 Right album, wrong track! Right album, wrong track!

]]> By: Duffong http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778033 Duffong Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778033 he he... g-code is born he he… g-code is born

]]> By: GuidoDavid http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778290 GuidoDavid Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778290 I guess they think it's more fun to compute. I guess they think it’s more fun to compute.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778035 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778035 East German covert propaganda. That's actually a very complicated 10's control console linked to a Western sympathizer and agent they are torturing just off camera. Sick beyond description. Luckily the agent was rescued because of the photograph. Okay -- tried to make a piece of super-cheese something more interesting. Instead just made it sort of disturbing. Sigh. East German covert propaganda. That’s actually a very complicated 10′s control console linked to a Western sympathizer and agent they are torturing just off camera. Sick beyond description. Luckily the agent was rescued because of the photograph.

Okay — tried to make a piece of super-cheese something more interesting. Instead just made it sort of disturbing. Sigh.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778295 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778295 http://tronic-verlag.50webs.com/Cpu/cpu_1983.html Enjoy! (this is an Orrrder!) o/ Jenz http://tronic-verlag.50webs.com/Cpu/cpu_1983.html

Enjoy! (this is an Orrrder!)

o/

Jenz

]]> By: Bucket http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777785 Bucket Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777785 unicorn please. unicorn please.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778811 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778811 Lenny: "Ow! The doctor said I ain't supposed to get ASCII in my eye!" Lenny: “Ow! The doctor said I ain’t supposed to get ASCII in my eye!”

]]> By: caipirina http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777793 caipirina Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777793 Oh my ... I recall those magazines, but never have seen SUCH a CHEESY cover ... what I hated most back then was that they used some computer-y looking font for the whole magazine ... crazy ... Or typing 4 pages of code into my zx-spectrum to get a simple game going ... interestingly, the microdrive was the last piece of hardware I bought for my ZX, before I discovered something more bizarre and wonderous than computers ... GIRLS ... (now I am married ... now I am back at computers) Oh my … I recall those magazines, but never have seen SUCH a CHEESY cover … what I hated most back then was that they used some computer-y looking font for the whole magazine … crazy … Or typing 4 pages of code into my zx-spectrum to get a simple game going …

interestingly, the microdrive was the last piece of hardware I bought for my ZX, before I discovered something more bizarre and wonderous than computers … GIRLS …

(now I am married … now I am back at computers)

]]> By: Jack http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778050 Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778050 Stop giving Terry Richardson and Dov Charney ideas! Stop giving Terry Richardson and Dov Charney ideas!

]]> By: tsturm http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778309 tsturm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778309 Oh wow. I guess I'm the only one here who actually owned a couple of issues of this magazine, but for some reason I missed this specific gem. I remember all of their covers being supremely cheesy and the type-in game listings being universally broken - I probably learned more about programming from debugging their listings than I did in university. :-) Oh wow. I guess I’m the only one here who actually owned a couple of issues of this magazine, but for some reason I missed this specific gem.
I remember all of their covers being supremely cheesy and the type-in game listings being universally broken – I probably learned more about programming from debugging their listings than I did in university. :-)

]]> By: Church http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778055 Church Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778055 So THAT'S what Michael Palin was doing in the seventies. So THAT’S what Michael Palin was doing in the seventies.

]]> By: kc0bbq http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777803 kc0bbq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777803 Is it possible to look more German? Is it possible to look more German?

]]> By: avraamov http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777811 avraamov Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777811 'und wir kontrollieren die Geschwindigkeit des Vibrators wie das...' ‘und wir kontrollieren die Geschwindigkeit des Vibrators wie das…’

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-816222 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-816222 No big fuss, it's just an issue about pair programming... No big fuss, it’s just an issue about pair programming…

]]> By: Vidar 'blacktar' Andersen http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-792927 Vidar 'blacktar' Andersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792927 Awesome! 'Ich zeige Dir wie man Liebe macht - mit dem Computer!' Reminds me of this track of a friend of mine http://blacktar.com/ebinger/mp3/Computerliebe.mp3 Awesome! ‘Ich zeige Dir wie man Liebe macht – mit dem Computer!’
Reminds me of this track of a friend of mine http://blacktar.com/ebinger/mp3/Computerliebe.mp3

]]> By: Noobles http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777825 Noobles Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777825 I also remember these type of ads for computers. wow... Anyway don't ask what a German is to Justin Bieber!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4 I also remember these type of ads for computers.

wow…

Anyway don’t ask what a German is to Justin Bieber!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4

]]> By: RuthlessRuben http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777829 RuthlessRuben Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777829 Well, it was acceptable in the 80ies. Well, it was acceptable in the 80ies.

]]> By: DanielZKlein http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-778091 DanielZKlein Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-778091 "Nine more interesting programs!" Yes, I'm sure there was a 6 page listing of BASIC POKE commands that would make your PC beeper produce a sound that, if you really wanted to believe, sounded kind of like "hello". I also once typed a listing off a magazine that resulted in a BASICA "game" where you had to land the lunar module by typing in scalar values for the deceleration burns. EXCITING! “Nine more interesting programs!” Yes, I’m sure there was a 6 page listing of BASIC POKE commands that would make your PC beeper produce a sound that, if you really wanted to believe, sounded kind of like “hello”. I also once typed a listing off a magazine that resulted in a BASICA “game” where you had to land the lunar module by typing in scalar values for the deceleration burns. EXCITING!

]]> By: fataltourist http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777837 fataltourist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777837 I think we're all obligated to recreate this photo. I think we’re all obligated to recreate this photo.

]]> By: TJ S http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777845 TJ S Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777845 Hang on... I was born in July of '84. This issue is Nov of '83, so the photo was probably taken in October. Oh god no. Hang on…
I was born in July of ’84.
This issue is Nov of ’83, so the photo was probably taken in October.

Oh god no.

]]> By: senorglory http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777848 senorglory Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777848 I don't understand. Does translating the German text clarify? I don’t understand. Does translating the German text clarify?

]]> By: Dave Faris http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777853 Dave Faris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777853 <em>..By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody..</em> ..By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody..

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777856 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777856 One major difference to today: Now my wife and I both have our own laptop in our bed. Best contraceptive ever. ;) One major difference to today:

Now my wife and I both have our own laptop in our bed. Best contraceptive ever. ;)

]]> By: scifijazznik http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777859 scifijazznik Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777859 Came for Kraftwerk reference. Leaving satisfied. Came for Kraftwerk reference. Leaving satisfied.

]]> By: DeWynken http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777862 DeWynken Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777862 "Listen honey...I KNOOOW its a picture done in ASCII, but if you just lift your left leg up in the air, and grab the headboard with your free arm, we will experience Nirvana of the like you've never dreamed of". Of course it'd sound so much better in German. “Listen honey…I KNOOOW its a picture done in ASCII, but if you just lift your left leg up in the air, and grab the headboard with your free arm, we will experience Nirvana of the like you’ve never dreamed of”.

Of course it’d sound so much better in German.

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777863 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777863 Would that be an 8-bit version of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On?" Would that be an 8-bit version of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On?”

]]> By: bklynchris http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777865 bklynchris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777865 Only the Germans can make sex seem unsexy. I briefly lived in one of their larger cities and the sexual cultural seemed so, I don't know? BASIC? Bwahahahahahaha Hey! I can hear your eyes rolling! Fataltourist, that is an excellent idea but can I photoshop J. Lo's face over mine? Only the Germans can make sex seem unsexy. I briefly lived in one of their larger cities and the sexual cultural seemed so, I don’t know? BASIC? Bwahahahahahaha

Hey! I can hear your eyes rolling!

Fataltourist, that is an excellent idea but can I photoshop J. Lo’s face over mine?

]]> By: dafoink http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777868 dafoink Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777868 10 ? "Cheesie" 20 GOTO 10 10 ? “Cheesie”
20 GOTO 10

]]> By: Dave Faris http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/computerliebe-1983.html#comment-777876 Dave Faris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-777876 I have to wonder why they bothered plugging in the power to the C64, but not the video. I have to wonder why they bothered plugging in the power to the C64, but not the video.

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