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.
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)