Hey guys, im look for high resolution images of 60's-80's Datacenters, Mainframes, Control rooms.. I would want to print them, so i do need resolution. Any help would be highly appreciated.
>>3877173Sorry, i know this isnt /r/ but i rarely have the need for such images and i really dont know where to efficiently look for this shit.
>>3877177Pinterest and Google Image Search are the best places to find images like this.Go to:https://www.google.com/advanced_image_searchAnd set the filter to search only for images higher than 2000x2000 or something like. Bing is good too but usually it finds the same images as Google.
Same image you've posted but higher quality
>>3877463>>3877479thank you, these are great!
bump for interesting content
>>3877467Control room for a nuclear reactor?
>>3877479>widescreen monitorFAKE
>>3882636I dunno if it is fake, but I did find a bunch more pictures from a similar timeframe on this site: http://ibm-1401.info/IBM1401_ArchivePics.html
>>3882651>http://ibm-1401.info/IBM1401_ArchivePics.htmlwow, what a beauty. Thanks for the find.
>>3882656reminds me of something you'd see on a David Bowie's album back cover (maybe that's to specific) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0871DYyHSE
>>3882636Those aren't monitors dumbass. Before you call fake think for a second.Those are just some panels with indicators on them, the lines/tables on them are actually painted. The panel on the right clearly has a hinged cover that opens towards the right, making it look "wide"
Does "fictional movie control rooms" work for you, anon? I have a couple of science fiction movies in 4k with cool sets.
>>3877173bump
>>3887780Dunno if it works for OP anon, but I'm up for it.Please post.
>>3889321nice
>>3887780>>3888848Not OP, but I would like to see those too.
>>3887780yes please also bump for interesting content
>>3877466The FUCK is that thing on the table?It clearly looks like a sectioned model of a sphere-cone re-entry body, with 3 sub-objects inside. It's not a match for any of the KH-1 through KH-9 film buckets. It's not a match of Apollo or any other manned capsule. It's not a MIRV container (they just sit on the bus after exiting the atmosphere, and are themselves biconic rather than sphere-cone bodies). It doesn't match any other sample-return mission capsules I can think of (like Genesis or Stardust), It doesn't match any planetary probed like the Vikings or Pioneers. I can only guess it's some sort of cancelled sample-return vehicle project or some Apollo Applications thing.
>>3877466>>3897869The photo is from 1965, so calm down. Some changes happened between then and the first mission.
bumping
>>3899545I'm old, so what strikes me about this image is the reminder that when I was a kid computers were all about text. Glowing letters on a dark background.I remember when graphic interfaces started to creep into the mainstream and for a minute it felt like the future was something you could touch.
>>3899545Excelent pic. What is the source? This looks like something I'd have seen in National geographic in like, 1981. Sory would be something like "the dawning silicon age" and the caption would be "Sally Jenkins of Lexington, KY types up a term paper on her home computer. She'll save her work to a 'diskette,' which she'll turn in to the school's media lab to be printed onto paper."
>>3913645I was born in the late '70's. I remember my dad buying computer magazines in the early '80's which published BASIC programs back then. You'd sit the typing out the code to see what it did. Eventually, you learned to write your own code. Learning to solder properly was also useful. Not because you wanted to but if you were into computers or any kind of electronics, it was a necessary skill. Some chips weren't socketed but soldered to the board.
>>3928922"The Calutron Girls were a group of young women, mostly high school graduates who joined the World War II efforts in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945.Although they were not allowed to know at the time, they were monitoring dials and watching meters for a calutron, a mass spectrometer that separates uranium isotopes.[3] The enriched uranium was used to make the first atomic bomb.""Calutron Girls, photographed by Ed Westcott, at their calutron control panels at Y-12. Gladys Owens, the woman seated in the foreground, did not know what she had been involved with until seeing this photo in a public tour of the facility fifty years later."
>>3929735Thank you, for your information. I had not known it until now.
>>3931902As a kid I helped my Dad carry punchcards.
>>3934627you fucking monster
>>3877173Wtf is that place. I can read that it's a datacenter but why have it in a retail location like that?
>>3936797As a brand new thing, it probably needed its name out in the public in order to get big names to start noticing/ investing in it.
>>3936927>>3936928>>3936930>>3936932get out
>>3877173
>>3938022>oh no, a computerIt doesn't have to intimidate you.
>>3939794For anyone who might be curious this great be-knobbed beast is some sort of Buchla modular synthesizer, taken to the extreme.
>>3940759>60's-80's Datacenters, Mainframes, Control roomsSorry reading is hard for you :(
>>3877464Oh shit this was downtown toronto back in the day. I recognize the King Edwards reflection in the window.
>>3940856Woefully, the point here is not to desperately grasp at straws through attempting a pitiful schoolyard mockery of an individual's vernacular my dear peon. People who don't care about the rules have this amazing, incogitable ability to ignore them. It is, as a matter of concrete fact, a sad reality for you that bitches who bitch will purposely receive the exact thing they were bitching about. Enjoy some content as compensation for your infantile whimpering.
Let's get back to the topic at hand.
>>3922041This is a power plant
I love this stuff.
>>3885907>>3887513>>3890764Which one of these is the real First Universal Cybernetic Kinetic Ultramicro Programmer?
Look for Ezra Stoller commission on IBM 702 Machine, 1955I would post it myself as I had it as wallpaper for ages, but I'm unable due to low resolution (yeah I'm a n00b) and I'm frankly in a hurry.Great thread tho, thank you.
Ezra Stoller, "IBM 702 Machine", 1955
>>3877173This was my wallpaper in high school.
>>3952781>ller, 'IBM 702 Ma(...).jpg (4.79 MB, 3164x2560)Oh gosh this is amazing.
>>3943416No, really?
