Any tech journalists looking for a nice little story: Saturday October 24th will be @archive.org's Wayback Machine 25th birthday librarytechnology.org/pr/9384 — All grown up, it now archives 1 trillion web pages.

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Also, the ViMart terminal is featured in RoboCop. RoboCop puts his fist through it.

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The disc begins with three repeated transmissions using Manchester encoding at approximately 2,000 bits per second. This provided information about the software to the menu system, program information would be chosen using a keypad. (ChatGPT is able to decode the data, that’s fun)

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The videos were on laserdisc and were released every couple of months. I managed to get my hands on one of them and digitized it. Here are 72 Atari, Commodore 64, Apple II and IBM PC software titles from September 1985.  youtu.be/xR2fAnTG864

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This is a ViMart series 1000 video display system. For a short time in the 1980s, these were in stores that sell software. Its job was to tell you about the software that was for sale in the store. You would look up the software in the index & enter its number on the keypad and watch a little video.

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