Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT and DELETE.
@mwichary I love those icons. (And the Lamp Test button is curious — what lamp does it test?)
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@andrewg Did that work well?
@mwichary compared to modern optical mice, no. But compared with the ball mice of the time, absolutely. The main advantage was that they didn’t need cleaning (aside from the occasional wipe down) and didn’t degrade as badly over time.
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This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard that established the inverse T arrow key standard.
@mwichary I like the blue ink.
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@mwichary I love those icons. (And the Lamp Test button is curious — what lamp does it test?)
@michaelgemar I think probably all the LEDs on the keyboard and or the screen bezel (where IBM sometimes put them).
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Not-so-fun instructions from an accounting computer that was used at a funeral home.
@mwichary Grim.
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For blue, you have to go with IBM blue.
@mwichary Y2K Ready lol
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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).
@mwichary it’s like architects who create buildings that a human would hate to live in.
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I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT and DELETE.
@mwichary omg, I’d love to get a board that controls my office.
All of the key caps have to look like Cray lit buttons tho -
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).
@mwichary Here's another circular mouse for you. This one came with the AT&T 5620 terminal (I used one in grad school back in the day).
Depraz Digimouse Mouse AT&T Terminal Computer Mouse BLIT DMD 5620 630 MTG | eBay
Depraz Digimouse Mouse. The Digimouse mouse has 3 paper labels on the bottom that read The AT&T Digimouse box reads Instead of a steel ball like the older mouse's, a transluscent hard plastic ball moves freely in a larger opening in the Digimouse's retainer ring.
eBay (www.ebay.com)
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
@mwichary Arrrgh! The tractor-fed paper is misaligned!!
On another note, the Data General stuff is *very* blue.
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Speaking of, some more nice keyboards.
@mwichary I’ll bet the action on these is still great.
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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).
@mwichary because "design"?
Glad we settled on: because human.
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This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.
@mwichary Pressing both together = sudo
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This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.
@mwichary That is majestic.
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
@mwichary
(*vibrates with OCD-fueled anxiety*)...Must...fix...pinfeed alignment...!
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
@mwichary
The fanfold paper in the teleprinter looks like it's been loaded askew and it's making my 1980s OCD twitch
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The future was once now.
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
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Fun arrangement of ports on an IBM computer + a secret inventory # Gorton.
@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.!
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Not-so-fun instructions from an accounting computer that was used at a funeral home.
@mwichary so many great usernames in that list
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Loved this guarded (and hyphenated) RESTART key.
@mwichary is that blood or rust on the key?
