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  1. pcarsola 36 months ago | reply

    I wish my living room looked like that.

  2. wonderella 36 months ago | reply

    lol

  3. tortuga2010 36 months ago | reply

    Nice work--my understanding is that the real early computers were even bigger?

  4. Compound Eye 36 months ago | reply

    It's Google in paper form - published weekly at news stands.

    He's currently browsing the 'corset' section... [mmm, nice...]

  5. quigley_brown (Jim Hamann) 36 months ago | reply

    I remember in college the computer dept. throwing out all their old stuff like this and I plucked off all the buttons. Wish I would have saved them...

  6. jamica1 36 months ago | reply

    Interesting in the context of the times that they have a serious looking female as a computer operator

  7. HELLO CHICAGO 36 months ago | reply

    Hmmm, If I push this little red button...Chicago goes -poof- . I hope the boss wont be upset.

  8. x-ray delta one 36 months ago | reply

    ... here comes the AV Kid-
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4wQJfdhOlU

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs

  9. saltycotton 36 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Vintage Working Woman, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  10. eliz.avery 36 months ago | reply

    Where are all the punch cards?

  11. HELLO CHICAGO 36 months ago | reply

    My high school had the IBM machine with punch cards in 1971. www.chineselinuxuniversity.net/images/2009/3/13/IBM_Punch...

  12. dcochran2009 36 months ago | reply

    my first job at the Univ. of Utah was delivering boxes of punch cards to "date processing." my second job was loading tapes on machines that looked suspiciously similar to the ones in the picture. wait! it can't be!! but it is!! eureka!!!

  13. Zenithbay 36 months ago | reply

    He looks like a dapper Don Knotts...

  14. IanAnthonySmith 35 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Robots, Automatons, Mainframes and the Silicon Revolution, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  15. Paul Birza 28 months ago | reply

    "Marge, does this thing get the Google? I want to use the Google."

  16. IanAnthonySmith 28 months ago | reply

    No Homer you're in a launderette.

  17. theconkeyboy 26 months ago | reply

    Ha ha, that's a super photo. I used it in an article called "How to Make a Page in Facebook Future-Proof with iFrames" text

  18. bona browser 19 months ago | reply

    He's checking the manual to see where the any button is.

  19. HELLO CHICAGO 19 months ago | reply

    The self destruct button is labeled Self Destruct

  20. schilbach@gmail.com 7 months ago | reply

    Great Work, Great Image - Thanks for making this Creative Commons - I've used it on my website www.schilbach.co.uk

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