The Silicon Shop
by Mark Taylor
Title
The Silicon Shop
Artist
Mark Taylor
Medium
Painting - Digital / Mixed
Description
The Silicon Shop
Owning a computer, let alone one you could accommodate in your home was all but a science fiction fantasy in the 1970s. By the eighties, microelectronics had become smaller and vastly more powerful, and massively cheaper. Many parents and their children didn’t really understand what a computer was until the early eighties, but they absolutely knew they wanted one. The seventies prophecy of a future of information technology had arrived and the family would make the pilgrimage to one of the many specialist home computers stores of the day where a multitude of home computers would be displayed on wooden shelves.
Children would quickly learn rudimentary programming languages, often much faster than their parents and so, you could spot random text on every display, programmed by kids.
My latest creation is inspired by the many Saturday afternoons I spent touring local computer stores with either my parents or my friends, always looking out for the next big tech thing to grace the high street.
For those who missed out, this is history. For those who were there, this was a typical eighties childhood!
Thanks for viewing!
Mark
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February 13th, 2022
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