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She was most certainly real. Here's her Find a Grave memorial with a supporting news article, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250277859/shirley-elizabeth-highfield , and the r/vintageads subreddit took a detailed look at her some time ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/18dxqu3/the_astonishing_mrs_highfield_for_rinsos_soap/

As an aside, I think my fifth grade teacher had those exact glasses. Very much of the era!

I don't recall ever computing with the monitor next to the CPU. Did anyone else, or was this an aesthetically pleasing way of setting up gear for ad photos?

PLATO is super cool. I highly recommend the book "The Friendly Orange Glow" for a review of the system and network (http://www.friendlyorangeglow.com/ ). It was hugely ahead of its time in many respects.

What's Skopje like as a place to live?

Gold in Sacks: https://www.politicalirony.com/2009/07/19/gold-in-sacks/

Hobo code, perhaps? -- https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25174860/hobo-code/

Unfortunately this is no longer true. Matsumoto's paper, "Voyager Interstellar Mission: Challenges of Flying a Very Old Spacecraft on a Very Long Mission" notes that the full suite of system simulators were not retained beyond the prime mission due to reliability problems, loss of expertise, and a move. This makes the team's recent achievements even more impressive.

Enjoyed this thoroughly. I am especially glad to have this community in this age of AI.

Stunning. I especially like the artist's subtle but skilled use of light. Thank you for sharing this.

My first reaction to this post was a downvote, since the NSFW tagging blurred the image in my feed, and the blurred image looked like something that should be blurred. The title also sounded suspect. I assumed it was porn spam until I opened it.

404 on CVE URL. Thanks for the post.