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Marcin WicharySome fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!
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?
(Mastodon rate limited me! More in a bit.)
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.
petes_bread_eqn_xls@mwichary Y2K Ready lol
Briala
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)
Chris L-W👻🚫
Scimmia di Mare
Michael Gemar@mwichary I like the blue ink.
1000millimeter
AZ Guy 
turmoni
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️@mwichary fast forward? Next field/screen?
@mwichary I love those icons. (And the Lamp Test button is curious — what lamp does it test?)
@michaelgemar I think probably all the LEDs on the keyboard and or the screen bezel (where IBM sometimes put them).
Luke Dorny 
@mwichary omg, I’d love to get a board that controls my office.
All of the key caps have to look like Cray lit buttons tho
All of the key caps have to look like Cray lit buttons tho
LukasKaypro! My first computer. But I never had a cheat sheet like that. Ah, the good old days.
Michael B. Johnson@mwichary is that blood or rust on the key?
adamrice
Jakub Steiner ⭐@mwichary Can't wait for the next Severance season :)
karttu
Irenes (many)@mwichary oh what a gorgeous device
Tony Finch@mwichary that DG dasher colourway is beautiful
Greg Whitehead@mwichary Hah, I have an old model 33 teletype in the garage, and fond memories of war dialing them when I was a kid ;-)
JB105 🇵🇸
Ethan Blanton@mwichary There is one of these at the Info Age Science Museum in Wall, NJ (where VCF East is held) attached to a ... Nova, I think.
Thalia Archibald@mwichary I love your photos! Also, you mean to say this is the first teleprinter you've seen??
@thalia …in the Dasher family.
Stuart Marks@mwichary Arrrgh! The tractor-fed paper is misaligned!! 😄
On another note, the Data General stuff is *very* blue.
ewhac
Steven Reed@mwichary
The fanfold paper in the teleprinter looks like it's been loaded askew and it's making my 1980s vintage OCD twitch :)
The fanfold paper in the teleprinter looks like it's been loaded askew and it's making my 1980s vintage OCD twitch :)
ChancerubbageWell generally I have seen those tractor feed terminals with keyboards, just not with such striking design and colors.
Peter Steiner 🇨🇭🇺🇦(he/him)@mwichary We had a screen-less printer terminal for our PDP-something in high school (Gymnasium) in the early eighties. IIRR it was able to print symbols for the APL programming language
DeltaWye
aburka 🫣
Axel
Erik Ableson@mwichary That’s where I started (well, actually helping with punch cards) but this was like the first interactive terminal that my dad used for remote working with a 300 baud modem.
Boxes and boxes of perforated paper, with me using a protractor on quadrant scans in Star Trek to calculate the angle for the photon torpedoes (always an instant-kill, so much better than phasers)