Really...really old photos...You can send me comments, stories or if you can identify these...
These are old pics of computers, operators, terminal and periphs from the 1960's...Old computers were sometimes refered to as "big iron" and from the size of these things, i can understand that...
nice haircut M.Computer Operator...
GE 225 terminal (I guess GE made computer
stuff back then...I probably was not born when it came out...)
Honeywell 200 Computer Station (ah...really?)
IBM 2314 Disk Drive Units (How much
storage was that? 20 Megs?)
IBM Graphics Station (Look it's a graph...on
a computer screen!)
RCA Terminal (I guess...RCA...where
is the dog?)
Unidentified Terminal (Used by BOAC
airlines way back - no idea on the model)
IBM 1050 (ok...1050...)
IBM 1030 (oh yeah...one of those 1030's...)
Modem ? (An old modem setup I guess...)
Univac 2000 (Wow....)
Old computer room (I guess that was RAM
cores...)
Bunker-Ramo display/Honeywell 200
Core Memory from a Speery Rand computer
CPU with discrete components from a NCR
computer
Friden 6010 (a "small" computer
for the 1960s)
Univac 1004 (another "small"
computer...)
Monrobot XI ("small"...)
Honeywell 200 ("medium")
GE 415 ("medium")
RCA 301 ("medium"....fills
a big room....)
IBM 1401 (pretty big if you ask me...)
Burroughs 5500 ("big one"...fills
one very large room....)
IBM 360 (I think this was a "big"
and very popular one...)
RCA Spectra 70 (big...very big....)
Videograph printer from A.B Dick Company
(first "laser" printer?)...says CRT tube formed a electricaly charge
image on paper...
Burroughs terminal (no idea on model
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IBM 7330 (hey, nice haircut M.Operator...)
IBM 1401 Control Panel (more buttons
than a mouse....)
IBM 7070 Control Panel ("computer's
acting up Ron, get me that Tuner Cleaner spray can...")
Paper Tape (Before magnetic tape and
disks there was : paper tape!)
Paper Tape Reader (and this was what
could read this paper tape....)
Honeywell Tape Drives (big - big -
big)
Punch Card Reader (to read...punch
cards...another method of inputting data into a computer...way back...)
IBM 7xxx series setup (how much storage
was each tape drive? anybody know?)
Unidentified
Old "paper tape" system ?
System used in Holiday Inn Hotels in 1960's
?
Typewriter or terminal ?
Don't know what but it looks big!
Paper tape/modem/phone ?
Holiday Inn terminal again?
IBM terminal?
No idea on this one...
Hard Disk rack and several disks in there...no
idea on the model...