Saturday, 31 July 2010

Big Computers

I love big and ancient technology. So i was delighted to discover this amazing website which has an archive of computing brochures. Some of them are utterly beautiful and mind-bogglingly cool

Here are some pictures that I have chosen, and below them are four examples of the complete brochures. Enjoy





IBM.system 1964

RCA.spectra 1968

ThinkingMachines-1986

Univac-1969
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  1. boothnavy2 August 2010 at 01:29

    what i want to know is, where are these machines now???

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  2. David B4 August 2010 at 08:44

    Interesting to note the early application of transistors in the first solid-state computers by IBM. In the late '50s the first music software was being written in assembler for these beasts, before Moog and Buchla had even begun to create the market for analogue synthesisers...

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  3. zagoba5 August 2010 at 08:53

    i guess gaining access to a machine like this was pretty hard back then [not as hard as now though, as boothnavy points out], especially for mere music applications!

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  4. David B6 August 2010 at 10:59

    I would imagine it was pretty difficult, unless you happened to be this guy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mathews

    Apparently Miller Puckette named the 'Max' software application after him...

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