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Marcin Wichary 1d ago

Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere.

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

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

Some very good on/off switches…

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

…and some very good regular switches, too.

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

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

Although the FILE UNSAFE… switch? light maybe? was unexpected.

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

A strange way to put an LED inside a button.

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

On the other hand, this is a cool way to choose a font.

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

This Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design…

Marcin Wichary 1d ago

…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!

Well generally I have seen those tractor feed terminals with keyboards, just not with such striking design and colors.