Marcin Wichary22h ago
Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.
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DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05

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Some very good on/off switches…
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…and some very good regular switches, too.

(I liked the whole hierarchy of toggles in that last photo.)

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Although the FILE UNSAFE… switch? light maybe? was unexpected.
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A strange way to put an LED inside a button.
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On the other hand, this is a cool way to choose a font.
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This Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design…
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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!
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