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Old Computers Exhibit

Posted by michael on from the fanfold-paper dept.

prostoalex writes "Arthur Lavine was working for Chase Manhattan bank as a principal photographer. Computer Museum runs an exhibit of Arthur Lavine's photographs of old computer and data processing equipment. Fifteen black-and-white photos from the era where computers were still heading for 1.5 ton benchmark."

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  1. whoa by Morgahastu · · Score: 4, Funny

    a time when computer geeks looked respectable.

    1. Re:whoa by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny
      What schocked me most is that there was even a pretty girl that looks feminine in the IT department!
      *sniff* I start to miss the old days....

    2. Re:whoa by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

      Huh, I was thinking that if they had dark glasses, they'd all look like agents from The Matrix.

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  2. Too much MTV... by semaj · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...my first thought being, "Wow, I didn't know Avril was that smart!. Ugh.

    I worry sometimes, I really do. :-)

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  3. #6 is a fraud! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's the inside of a VCR. You can't fool me.

  4. The good old days.... by GnomeKing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fifteen black-and-white photos from the era where computers were still heading for 1.5 ton benchmark

    Its amazing that all those years ago people knew that mhz was a useless "benchmark"...

  5. The only by Morgahastu · · Score: 2, Funny

    difference from then and now is that we have desktop computers to look at porn.

    Come on, you know that operator with the thick glasses is just waiting for the porn to come out.

  6. As someone born in 1980... by powerlinekid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its not fair.All you pre 1960's people get big whirling machines that would crank for days on end and then finally print out "Hello World". I get blazingly fast machines that already do everything. Its like Linux said "Back when men were men and wrote their own device drivers...". Look, I would write my own device drivers if I owned a device that wasn't already supported by Linux. Oh well... thats an excellent photo gallery, it reminds me of that movie War Games. Oh the memories I don't really have...

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  7. What a neat idea! by melonman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stretching a floppy disc into a long strip and wrapping it around a spindle. You must be able to store much more data than on a normal floppy. Where can I get one for my PC?

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  8. I'm appalled by panurge · · Score: 3, Funny
    The first computer I ever worked with looked like that. And worked like that. I feel even older than I did when I got up this morning.

    Ah, the era when the computer operator got paid more than the currency trader. It's all been downhill since. Where did we go wrong? (The answer, obviously, is letting users have Windows.)

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  9. Re:Real, Working Dinosaurs by kliklik · · Score: 2, Funny

    From Commodore PET page: Das ROM umfaßt 14KB, in denen sich ein 14K-Basicinterpreter einer amerikanischen Firma befindet, die auch heute noch nicht in der Lage ist, fehlerfreie Soft-ware herzustellen.

    <babel_fish>
    The ROM covers 14KB, in which a 8K-Basicinterpreter of an American company is, which is also today not yet able, error free software to manufacture.
    </babel_fish>

    I wonder who that might be...

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  10. Disk Farm by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    The disk farm brought a smile to my face. Each of those dish-washer sized units handles a (removable!) disk-pack of 500M or so tops, probably less.

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  11. Re:Photography Museum by CuratorTom · · Score: 1, Funny

    (Oh great. My bandwidth just got pummelled by the User Friendly people, and now a glancing blow by Slashdot. :)

  12. The ultimate by YAN3D · · Score: 2, Funny

    in GUI technology

    eat your heart out Jef Raskin!!
  13. maybe I am getting old by werdnab · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember tape drives all too well. Wish I didn't.

  14. Re:Great days these were by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So you're what, 11 now?

  15. Sarcasm by StuartFreeman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...

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  16. Obligatory Mel Moment... by rmassa · · Score: 3, Funny

    If anyone hasn't read it...

    The story of Mel:
    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Story-o f-Mel.html