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?
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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.
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).
Andrew Gallagher@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
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and the underside is even more insane than the top… did you get a photo of it?
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?