<![CDATA[Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!]]>Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/07e96508-03a7-46aa-aa97-53839d372b2a/some-fun-photos-from-large-scale-systems-museum-near-pittsburghRSS for NodeFri, 10 Apr 2026 17:30:43 GMTThu, 09 Apr 2026 00:58:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:30:32 GMT]]>@mwichary We had a screen-less printer terminal for our PDP-something in high school (Gymnasium) in the early eighties. IIRR it was able to print symbols for the APL programming language

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/pesche/statuses/116374046781391768https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/pesche/statuses/116374046781391768Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:30:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:26:02 GMT]]>@mwichary Can't wait for the next Severance season 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116374029109354922https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116374029109354922Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:26:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:12:20 GMT]]>@mwichary Another one for your list: I used one on a Dec MicroVax II, back in the late '80s. It had quite a large diameter, and fit reasonably well under the hand.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/darkling/statuses/116373975214751604https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/darkling/statuses/116373975214751604Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:12:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:08:53 GMT]]>@mwichary OMG this thread is spectacular! Thanks for sharing! 🤩

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/asciijungle/statuses/116373961652343260https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/asciijungle/statuses/116373961652343260Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:08:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:06:05 GMT]]>@mwichary We need more on/off switches to be like this.

[edit: me->be]

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/darkling/statuses/116373950668652252https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/darkling/statuses/116373950668652252Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:06:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:59:20 GMT]]>@mwichary Lovely thread that badly needs AltText (would serve the fully sighted well, too)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/SusiArnott/statuses/116373924126885037https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/SusiArnott/statuses/116373924126885037Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:59:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:40:03 GMT]]>@mwichary Long live the vertical Enter! The only correct orientation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/owiecc/statuses/116373848322488790https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/owiecc/statuses/116373848322488790Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:40:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:43:45 GMT]]>@mwichary Why? Because they are great for some people. The ball inside is round and it feels right to grab round things. Why do most companies go out of their way to make mice look like this odd shape that is like nothing you touch in normal life?

If today’s UI wasn‘t that hostile to single-button-no-scroll-thingie I‘d be rocking the puck every single day.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/bitnacht/statuses/116373626919830672https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/bitnacht/statuses/116373626919830672Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:43:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:52 GMT]]>@mwichary Postmodernism.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/shadychars/statuses/116373489765749822https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/shadychars/statuses/116373489765749822Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:46:47 GMT]]>@mwichary The terminal on top of the short-stack PDP-11s in the first picture is one of the most perfectly futuristic things I've ever seen. Any chance you remember what it is? [edit: Oop, nevermind, found it. DEC VT05 (or possibly VT8-E)!]

(Also I've never noticed the proofreading-style insert/delete keys before, but I love them)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/screambiogenesis/statuses/116373402914069300https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/screambiogenesis/statuses/116373402914069300Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:46:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:27:18 GMT]]>@mwichary oh those are some niiiiiiice switches

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/apple4ever/statuses/116373326278493510https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/apple4ever/statuses/116373326278493510Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:27:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:00:44 GMT]]>@mwichary

Well generally I have seen those tractor feed terminals with keyboards, just not with such striking design and colors.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Chancerubbage/statuses/116373221823410399https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Chancerubbage/statuses/116373221823410399Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:00:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:52:46 GMT]]>@mwichary Thank you! Some beautiful examples. Always love the vibrancy of some of those old machines. And of course some good clunky switches!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://typo.social/users/typearture/statuses/116373190509541702https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://typo.social/users/typearture/statuses/116373190509541702Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:52:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:48:35 GMT]]>@michaelgemar @mwichary
“infant set up”
whew

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AccordionBruce/statuses/116373174088810539https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AccordionBruce/statuses/116373174088810539Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:48:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:46:00 GMT]]>@mwichary My dad had an old electronic calculator — an enormous thing that must have weighed 20 kg — with a row of 10 or 12 Nixies for the display.

It was fascinating to watch in use, because it was *just* slow enough to see the digits flicker back and forth while it was calculating the answer.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/montyhayter/statuses/116373163905730514https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/montyhayter/statuses/116373163905730514Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:46:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:41:10 GMT]]>@mwichary That one twigged some nostalgia: My father worked for Control Data, and some of my earliest clear memories are of him taking me to work, and seeing an animated Snoopy in flying ace gear flying his doghouse across the screen — in ASCII art no less, at first.

Long time ago. <sigh>

(As a bonus, the amber brought to mind my old Hyperion mostly-PC-compatible “portable”, which I still have)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/montyhayter/statuses/116373144892314492https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/montyhayter/statuses/116373144892314492Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:41:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:31:27 GMT]]>@mwichary I loved my D100 - wish I had never given it away.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://christmas.tattoo/users/sultmhoor/statuses/01KNRBJNKPSFBWG9P0AJEXAYEPhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://christmas.tattoo/users/sultmhoor/statuses/01KNRBJNKPSFBWG9P0AJEXAYEPThu, 09 Apr 2026 05:31:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:18:08 GMT]]>@mwichary @foone

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/1000millimeter/statuses/116373054313543288https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/1000millimeter/statuses/116373054313543288Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:18:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:07:22 GMT]]>@mwichary is that blood or rust on the key?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Drwave/statuses/116373011967337991https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Drwave/statuses/116373011967337991Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:07:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:00:45 GMT]]>@mwichary so many great usernames in that list

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urbanists.social/users/ShamylZakariya/statuses/116372985942166666https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urbanists.social/users/ShamylZakariya/statuses/116372985942166666Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:00:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:54:54 GMT]]>@mwichary sorry for the fan mail, but, oh holy wah, I am so excited by every one of these photos; nice work; thank you; etc.!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/cowperthwait/statuses/116372962959748349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/cowperthwait/statuses/116372962959748349Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:54:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:15:14 GMT]]>@mwichary

worked some years with two 780s and a 750. These we're nice machines to work with.

But quite funny: my pimped Amiga 2000 at home with 68030 and 68882 FPU was running the same applications at comparable speed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/echopapa/statuses/116372806961285860https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/echopapa/statuses/116372806961285860Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:15:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:05:44 GMT]]>@mwichary
The fanfold paper in the teleprinter looks like it's been loaded askew and it's making my 1980s OCD twitch 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/srtcd424/statuses/116372769648010498https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/srtcd424/statuses/116372769648010498Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:05:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:49:58 GMT]]>@mwichary
(*vibrates with OCD-fueled anxiety*)

...Must...fix...pinfeed alignment...!

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