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.
Phil Wilmarth@mwichary We have gone from System-in-a-Cabinet (SiC) to System-On-a-Chip (SoC). My iMac Pro has a million times the RAM that my 1984 original Mac had. The cost was still around $2500 adjusted for inflation, so a million times more computer for roughly the same price. I visited the Living Computers Museum in Seattle before the pandemic closed it. That was really fun. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA is also pretty good.