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.
penguin42@mwichary What do you mean by 'Gorton' in these ?
(As someone from Manchester I'm most used to it as being a pretty grim area of Manchester, but which once housed one of ICL computers sites); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited )
(As someone from Manchester I'm most used to it as being a pretty grim area of Manchester, but which once housed one of ICL computers sites); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited )
Stewart Russell@penguin42 Gorton Engraver company. Marcin noticed that it's the font on so many keycaps.
My dad worked at ICL Gorton a couple of times.
@penguin42 I wrote about it more here if you are interested. It has British origins! https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
