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This is the first out of four Canon Cat promotional photos that I had access to, scanned and cleaned up.
Here is the description accompanying the photo:
The Canon Cat "work processor" provides many office functions in one compact, easy-to-use system. An operator can keep approximately 80 single-spaced, typewritten pages on a disk and locate information stored anywhere in the text almost immediately, using two unique "Leap" keys. Text can be edited, moved, restyled, underlined, boldfaced and checked for spelling with only a few keystrokes.
I love this air defense computer because of its built-in lighter and ashtray.
here's a shot of the computer in-use.
www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102622740
and more on the air defense program itself:
12 maja o godzinie 17:00 w Centrum Szyfrów Enigma w Poznaniu odbyło się wyjątkowe spotkanie z zespołem konstruktorskim polskiego komputera edukacyjnego Elwro-800 Junior.
Więcej o komputerze Elwro 800 Junior: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwro_800_Junior
Wydarzenie: csenigma.pl/spotkanie-z-juniorem-elwro-800-junior-w-centr...
On May 12, at 5:00 p.m. in the Enigma Cipher Center in Poznań, a special meeting with the design team of the Polish educational computer Elwro-800 Junior took place.
More about the Elwro 800 Junior computer: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwro_800_Junior
Event: csenigma.pl/spotkuje-z-juniorem-elwro-800-junior-w-centru...
More IBM 7030 'Stretch' Switches such as:
MCP OPTIONS:
HELP FILE OF OFF
CARD READER SELECT
ERROR FIX (SOS)
WAKE ON END OF BATCH
CALIBRATE CLOCK FROM PUSH BUTTONS
WAKE ON IPL
ipl means 'initial program load'.
Mountain View, California. Taken over SGIs old conference center
This used to be what Google ran before!
other photos:
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www.flickr.com/photos/cshym74/3566139800/
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CDC 6600 (serial number 1), Control Data Corp., 1964
Memory: 64K+2M (60-bit) Core
Speed: 10 MFLOPS
Cost: $10,000,000
“When introduced in 1964, the CDC 6600 was the fastest computer in the world. Designed by Seymour Cray, it executed about 3 million instructions per second and remained the fastest machine for five years, until Cray produced his next supercomputer, the 7600. The elegant architecture of the 6600 included one 60-bit central processor with multiple functional units coupled to ten shared-logic 12-bit peripheral I/O processors. The machine was Freon cooled. Selling for $6 to $10 million each, Control Data Corporation (CDC) manufactured about 100 machines.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7040)
Transistor-based Computer Circuit Boards
Walter Brattain, William Shockley, and John Bardeen produced the first transistor in December 1947 at Bell Laboratories. It was not until the late 1950s, however, that transistors became sufficiently reliable and inexpensive to be used as switching elements in computer circuitry. Since they were smaller and used less power than vacuum tubes, transistors allowed for greater circuit density and decreased cooling and power requirements. Circuit boards, like those shown here, connected transistors and other components to form the basic building blocks of computers. By the early 1960s, almost all computers were made with transistors.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(6993)