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‘In the late ’60′s I worked for Bell Labs for a few years managing a data center and developing an ultra high speed information retrieval system. ‘There was no natural light and I had a slim budget for decorations. I also had staff with artistic talents so I bought the materials and they made their own decorations.’
- Lawrence Luckham
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Thank you to Lawrence Luckham
This is such a great look back at the early days of computers, thanks for posting it! Also, does anyone else think the second-to-last picture could have been taken at Aperture Science?
You faked those shots, did you? This is just too good to be true… the ops manager’s sideburns are beyond real, and details like the wall-mounted pencil sharpener in the “artist and work” view? And Karen’s second name is really DELL? Oh life, it has its moments.
The Honeywell DDP-516 was the computer used for the Interface Message Processors – the first routers on the pre-Internet ARPANET in the late 60s.