Posted 2 years ago
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Not the now generic "digital" word's meaning as popularly applied to generally about every otherwise ordinary thing we all havta deal with on a daily basis whether its an actual computer, phone, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, motor vehicle, or any other d*mned modern machine which (IMHO) was probably generally easier to deal with and actually *use*, before society seems to have decided that they all should be 'internet controlled'... <headdesk>
Instead, for this thing, the DIGITAL name/logo on its front is that of a (kinda early but also kinda really good at the time?) maker of actual computers and related equipment mostly intended for tasks like sending rockets into outer space (and getting them back intact) or otherwise stuff very much unlike and again maybe slightly more important (once more, to society in general) than "digital" vacuum cleaner bag monitors that send instant "digital" warning alerts to your phone. Gawd help any of us that might have to suffer the horrible consequences of a too-ful suk-o-lux that is...OH, the potential life-altering traumas now to be "digitally" avoided...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
It is otherwise a folded over sheet of 'brown smoked color' clear acrylic plastic with a couple spacer posts on each of its open end's corners holding them together, and since the closed side of it has the logo on it, I'll guess that was intended to be its front, which could easily suggest it was made as something to hold up an early computer printer, probably one of those also now hopelessly obsolete ones that used the kind of paper that came in a boxful of sheets all actually connected together end to end with perforations between them and tear-off strips of larger round holes along both sides of their whole lengths which those machines needed to actually drag the paper into/thru them.
That's about all I know (read: guess) about it right now as far as its history goes. Also about as much as whatever I might (or not) ever end up *doing* with it, any potential proper inspiration for that hasn't come to me yet though I am happy at how rather well it cleaned up with a healthy dose of windex and whatnot...it came to me from a basement where it'd been summarily tossed aside in a corner in the dirt, looking very much like one would expect of such a thing found in such a place. .
Yes the Red thing ,is an early ,red photographic developing light
inside the ceramic BoPeep with lamb