Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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In my next life, I want to come back as a Nixie tube.
@mwichary I have some nixie tube calculators (pic 1), but you might also enjoy the not-quite-7-segment aesthetic of Itron displays (pic 2)
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Fun arrangement of ports on an IBM computer + a secret inventory # Gorton.
@mwichary you sure this isn’t a Nanoraptor special?
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@mwichary I have some nixie tube calculators (pic 1), but you might also enjoy the not-quite-7-segment aesthetic of Itron displays (pic 2)
@lcamtuf Ha – I reproduced that last one as TTF some years ago!
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Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
@mwichary This is a delightful thread.
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This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.
@mwichary Those keys look wonderful — the shape and colour feels so warm and organic.
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This Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design…
@mwichary So much blue!
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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 if I had a pound for every time someone in our university computer labs grabbed one of these mice the wrong way round and momentarily thought they were having a stroke…
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@mwichary if I had a pound for every time someone in our university computer labs grabbed one of these mice the wrong way round and momentarily thought they were having a stroke…
ah good times@mwichary
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
@mwichary I love your photos! Also, you mean to say this is the first teleprinter you've seen??
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and the underside is even more insane than the top… did you get a photo of it?@andrewg Oh yeah! With the two slanted wheels?
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A lot of wires in the old computers.
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@andrewg Oh yeah! With the two slanted wheels?
@andrewg Did that work well?
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@mwichary I love your photos! Also, you mean to say this is the first teleprinter you've seen??
@thalia …in the Dasher family.
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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.
