Marcin WicharySome fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.
DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere.
…and some very good regular switches, too.
(I liked the whole hierarchy of toggles in that last photo.)
Which one is more scary: a Mac keyboard pretending to be a Space Cadet, or a Kaypro keyboard with an extremely intense overlay?
(Mastodon rate limited me! More in a bit.)
This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard that established the inverse T arrow key standard.
If you looked carefully, you might have spotted this Y2K readiness sticker on the last photo.
Not-so-fun instructions from an accounting computer that was used at a funeral home.
echopapa
DeltaWye
penguin42@mwichary What do you mean by 'Gorton' in these ?
(As someone from Manchester I'm most used to it as being a pretty grim area of Manchester, but which once housed one of ICL computers sites); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited )
(As someone from Manchester I'm most used to it as being a pretty grim area of Manchester, but which once housed one of ICL computers sites); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited )
Stewart Russell@penguin42 Gorton Engraver company. Marcin noticed that it's the font on so many keycaps.
My dad worked at ICL Gorton a couple of times.
David Sudweeks@penguin42 He’s referring to the type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorton_(typeface)
Chewie
CM Harrington@mwichary you sure this isn’t a Nanoraptor special? 🤣
Jonathan E Cowperthwait@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.!
Chaslinux
Erik Ableson
Michael Gemar
AccordionBruce
CONE OF SILENCE@mwichary so many great usernames in that list
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪"MOVE DIRT MORE THAN 25 MILES" 😬
Amin Girasol@mwichary I think @d_j_fitzgerald made reproductions of those for a recent show or conference!
Dan FitzGerald@fluidlogic @mwichary yup! For IBM TechXchange 2025 in Orlando!
petes_bread_eqn_xls@mwichary Y2K Ready lol
Briala
Hey Gus
Monty Hayter 🇨🇦@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)
Chris L-W👻🚫@mwichary ooo, is the green one a vector screen or just a green monochrome
Scimmia di Mare@mwichary I like the blue ink.
1000millimeter
AZ Guy 
turmoni
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️@mwichary fast forward? Next field/screen?
@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).
Luke Dorny 
@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
All of the key caps have to look like Cray lit buttons tho
Lukas
Eric T. MacKnightKaypro! My first computer. But I never had a cheat sheet like that. Ah, the good old days.
spinnyspinlock@mwichary mhmmm emacs RSI
Michael B. Johnson@mwichary is that blood or rust on the key?
adamrice