Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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Which one is more scary: a Mac keyboard pretending to be a Space Cadet, or a Kaypro keyboard with an extremely intense overlay?
Kaypro! My first computer. But I never had a cheat sheet like that. Ah, the good old days.
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
@mwichary I need those keycaps!
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(Mastodon rate limited me! More in a bit.)
I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT and DELETE.
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I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT and DELETE.
Here: symbols for inverse video, blinking, underlining, and… something?
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Here: symbols for inverse video, blinking, underlining, and… something?
This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard that established the inverse T arrow key standard.
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This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard that established the inverse T arrow key standard.
All the classic colors of CRTs: amber, white, green, and burn-in.
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All the classic colors of CRTs: amber, white, green, and burn-in.
(Hey computer, read the room.)
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(Hey computer, read the room.)
For blue, you have to go with IBM blue.
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For blue, you have to go with IBM blue.
If you looked carefully, you might have spotted this Y2K readiness sticker on the last photo.
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If you looked carefully, you might have spotted this Y2K readiness sticker on the last photo.
Fun tape changing instructions on the device itself.
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Fun tape changing instructions on the device itself.
Not-so-fun instructions from an accounting computer that was used at a funeral home.
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Not-so-fun instructions from an accounting computer that was used at a funeral home.
Fun arrangement of ports on an IBM computer + a secret inventory # Gorton.
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Fun arrangement of ports on an IBM computer + a secret inventory # Gorton.
Just a lot of shoddy Gorton all around. 🧡
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Just a lot of shoddy Gorton all around. 🧡
The future was once now.
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The future was once now.
A lot of wires in the old computers.
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A lot of wires in the old computers.
Why do companies tried to make circular mice happen so hard? I think this is the third one I know of (after the iMac puck one and the later NeXT one).
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Why do companies tried to make circular mice happen so hard? I think this is the third one I know of (after the iMac puck one and the later NeXT one).
In my next life, I want to come back as a Nixie tube.
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In my next life, I want to come back as a Nixie tube.
That’s it! I spent most of the time on the first floor with big machines. There is an entire second floor with a lot of microcomputers, but those were more familiar to me.
This is the website: https://www.mact.io/about_us
It’s currently by appointment. The volunteers were very nice!
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That’s it! I spent most of the time on the first floor with big machines. There is an entire second floor with a lot of microcomputers, but those were more familiar to me.
This is the website: https://www.mact.io/about_us
It’s currently by appointment. The volunteers were very nice!
More of the photos I took are here: https://flickr.com/photos/mwichary/albums/72177720332956990
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
@mwichary There is one of these at the Info Age Science Museum in Wall, NJ (where VCF East is held) attached to a ... Nova, I think.
