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Charlie Stross

Toot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!

(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)

Photograph of the front panel of an IBM System/360 mainframe—an adult person height red box about 1.5 metres deep, with a panel of blinkenlights and rotary dials (and some buttons). A desk sits in front of it, presumably for the operator's teletype printer.
Abram Kedge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

@cstross The Atlas, the first computer with virtual memory. Claimed to be the fastest computer in the world the year it was launched.

Three large cabinets (I'm guessing six feet high by eight feet wide by two deep). Random peripherals, printers, removable disk pack drives, a panel that at first glance appears to be a large flat screen, but on closer inspection has physical switches and panel lamps.
Mar 28, 2025, 08:02 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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