"Whilst searching for something else entirely I stumbled across these images and was struck by just how beautiful they are. The
September 1984 (Vol 9, No 10) issue of BYTE magazine features cover artwork by
Barbara Nessim and section pages by Liz Gutowski under direction of Barbara Nessim. Larger versions are
at the bottom of this blog post. They were drawn during a residency at
Time Life in NYC, simply because that was the easiest way Barbara could gain access to a colour computer with suitable capabilities: a
Norpak IPS-2 Videotex (
NAPLPS/
Telidon) system. This offered 6 drawing modes (arc, rectangle, circle, line, dot and polygon) and 12 colours, of which half were shades of grey, plus black and white. And at a resolution of 256x200. ..."
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