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ITT, historical computing equipment.
>> Anonymous
this is so 1989... Used to work on them tape drives evwen in the early 90s, so this is not so "historical"
>> Anonymous
>>83084

That's an IBM 360. One hell of a lot earlier than 1989.
>> Anonymous
>>83089

Judging by its size, it also could be an Xbox 360.
>> Anonymous
>>83101

I like your style, Anonymous.
>> nice machines toresbe
That's a System/360, with a row of 2402 tape drives. The CPU is either a model 40 or 50, judging from the panel. It has the extra channel interface. The console typewriter is a 1052. It most likely had a multifunc punch card reader/punch, and also maybe a disk drive or two.

I'm loving this thread. I'll paste some of my own.
>> BME
>>83084
1964 by the pcitures name
>> ken-and-den toresbe
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This is one of my absolute favorites, and an undisputable classic. It is a picture of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson in front of the Unix development PDP-11s. This included a very early PDP-11/20, and at least one /45. The teletypes are awesome to work with. The keys have an entirely unique feel to them, and the keyboard literally locks until it is ready to accept a new character. It is a great feeling to be typing at quite exactly 10 characters per second. :)

I own two and operate one PDP-11 at home. Lovely machines.

for more info:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/picture.html

Oh, and by the way: the System/360 picture depicts a configuration that would've been available in around 1966/67. So that is indeed a classic computer.
>> More IBM gear. toresbe
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This is about as awesome as the System/360s got. This one is a model 91, in use at NASA, possibly used to crunch numbers on the Apollo 12. It was so paralellized that one could have "imprecise interrupts" - interrupts where you could not find out with certainty exactly where the interrupt happened. This design borrowed heavily from significant innovations brought about by the IBM 7030 Stretch and Harvest projects previously. More pictures of this model is available here:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/36091.html
>> Anonymous
>>83131
>>83132
Great stuff.
>> toresbe
want more? i can dig some more stuff up.
>> Anonymous
>>83233
yes please
>> Anonymous
>>83233
Another vote for moar.

Where are you getting these?
>> DECsystem-10 toresbe
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This is a picture, of, I believe, a KL-10 1090, in the posession of the RCS/RI, the retrocomputing society of Rhode Island. In a bit of a hurry as I'm going off to my grandmothers', but I just get these around. Retrocomputing is an important hobby for me, so I just tend to gather up the neato ones. :)

This picture isn't itself extremely interesting, but it's very wallpaper-able, and that's my main criteria for these posts :)

Actually, reading usenet now, alt.sys.pdp10, they're starting to run this machine up, they powered the front-end processor up last month! Excellent. ...Their website seems to be down, but the pics would be somewhere on osfn.org/rcs/ - the machine can also be known as a 1090.
>> Tek terminal toresbe
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Here's another nice one from the minicomputer generation. This one was taken at Rutherford. I have no idea what computer this is, but given the era and location, it's possibly a Prime computer. The scope is a Tektronix 4010 or 4014 - beautiful async terminals. One interesting detail about the vector terminals is that you specified, say, a line, from x to y, and the cathode ray would trace it on the raster, and it would stay to the raster, until the entire screen was cleared. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube ) This made the terminals very badly suited for standard command line work, as there sort of was no backspace. But they were excellent graphics I/O units. I have a printout of a FORTRAN library for doing both 2D and 3D graphics on the terminals.

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral76/overview.htm
>> Anonymous
i love this stuff; i often wish i'd been born a bit earlier so i could've seen it being developed. please say you have more!
>> Anonymous
>>83585
Agreed on the being born too late part ('81 here).

I know /hr/ doesn't get stickies, but this is pretty fascinating.

(Also, ->>83529-, she's pretty.)
>> Awesome WE
This thread delivers.
>> toresbe
Nice to see that people like this. I'll dig around some more.