Boards of Canada played in lightbulbs: restored 1959 PDP-1 performance

This is truly haunting — the sound of a vintage machine’s lightbulbs hooked up to audio inputs, proving it can be more Boards of Canada than the actual Boards of Canada. Even the sound of loading up the punch cards and flipping the switches is oddly soothing. And more rabbit holes await.

Watch Larry Cuba explain how he animated the computer graphics for the original Star Wars

While you justify that new Mac or NVIDIA, here’s graphics animation legend Larry Cuba talking about how he used 1970s tech to make a Death Star animation that still looks stylish today.

Peter Kirn - November 23, 2021

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