SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Foto di Francesco De Francesco - www.flickr.com/photos/godzillante/ - www.facebook.com/studioquis

One of the rats nests in the back of the console. See the magic switch? Adding 2dF involved a new topend, which wasn't foreseen in the design of the telescope, so the old computer control needs to be told about the topend manually instead of detecting it itself.

NCR Tower 32-650 system - Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org/

IBM PS/2 E, running the system configuration tool from the reference diskette, closeup

Commodore Amiga 500 (Rev6a)

Thanks to the magic of iDOS and iPhone Explorer I was able to get Microsoft Word (5.5) running on my iPod Touch.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

NCR Tower 32-650 system - Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org/

NCR Tower 32-650 system - Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org/

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Foto di Francesco De Francesco - www.flickr.com/photos/godzillante/ - www.facebook.com/studioquis

A World War II Signal Corps radio with a WiFi access point on the top.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

IBM PS/2 E, a very compact design inside, on the right side there's the psu, the floppy drive and under the floppy there's the 2.5 ide disk drive, on the left side the quad pcmcia to isa adapter.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

IBM PS/2 E, power supply connector and serial port.

Digital/DEC VAX 11/750

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Apple II Convention, Bribie Island Queensland

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Royal typewriter

VCF 2018

running on PDP11/34

www.spresianoretrocomputing.tk/

This apple game controller is a piece of our museum

NCR Tower 32-650 system - Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org/

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

The mirror and servo mechanism of the robotic lights. There's a gobo wheel, filter wheel and shutter inside the box (on the left).

IBM PS/2 E, note the IBM tape on the original box.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

On the job -- main job is to make sure the stars in the guider monitor don't get lost

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

IBM PS/2 E, original IBM packaging.

The SW switch is 3D printed by Shapeways.

Commodore Amiga 500 Revision 8a, 1991

I love these late 70´s early 80´s computer manuals

Look so good today!

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Scan from Byte Magazine volume 00 issue 01.