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).
Charles Choi 최 민수@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.