Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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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?
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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 Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design…
@mwichary I loved my D100 - wish I had never given it away.
