OMNI, March 1980

     You can use the ATARI 400 at home to take care of...house-hold jobs.  And get the benefits of computerization without all the cost and complications.  And make learning more fun...  ...turn your TV into an electronic playground...  ...hold a lifetime's worth of information.  - ATARI advertisement
     Imagine the new world that would unfold before you if you had a powerful, portable, completely integrated computer system at your personal disposal.  And at an affordable price.  THE HP-85: A PERSONAL COMPUTER FOR PROFESSIONALS.  At the lab, on your desk or in your study this 20-pound...system provides professional computing power when and where you need it.  That means no more waiting for data...  A SOPHISTICATED COMPUTER AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.  - Hewlett Packard advertisement

STAR SEEKERS
by R. Sheckley
We are going to have to deal with not only the hypothesized strangeness of alien intelligence but with the documented strangeness of our own natures.  ...science-fiction writers and artists...go far beyond anything the ancient or medieval worlds knew in freedom from dogma, in range of speculation, in emotional breadth...  ...a time to be illuminated by the strange and be transformed by the unknown; to experience, and to know that we are experiencing.

images from top to bottom: NASA image, left - Darrell Sweet / right - Rowena Morril, left - Paul Lehr / right - John Schoenherr, left - Michael Whelan / right - Darrell Sweet, Kelly Freas, Friedrich Hechelman