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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 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. 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"...

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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