newyorker:

“Starting at the coffee cup, you go up to the round thing, then you go left where there’s a big cog, and to the left of that there’s something that looks a bit like a typewriter–that’s the Sinclair ZX81. That was my first computer, back in maybe 1984 or ’85,” the illustrator Christoph Niemann says of “Coffee Break,” his cover for this week’s issue.

Read about the other hidden technological treasures in this illustration on newyorker.com.