The island first appeared on the cover of Byte's "Pascal" issue:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-08

It was also done by Robert Tinney:
[image: tumblr_okpzdpIaRN1sndzdgo1_1280.jpg]

The "About the Cover" article describes it in more detail:

[image: image.png]

because in 1978, Smalltalk had still been hidden behind XEROX PARC's doors.

So for the issue that announced Smalltalk to the world, they wanted to
depict leaving that island
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

[image: image.png]

The balloon came from one of Dan's favorite books, Jules Verne's "L'Île
mystérieuse" (The Mysterious Island), which is about an engineer saving
people stranded on an isolated island with his ingenuity, and a hot air
balloon. Well worth a read, and a familiar character makes an appearance (I
won't spoil it for those who have not read it – unlike the Wikipedia
article).

Vanessa

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:50 AM Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>
wrote:

> We are all familiar with this image, but.. what does it actually means?
> Why the balloon, why the castle on the tiny island?
>
> Stef
>
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