(via Make mainframes, not war: how Mad Men sold computers in the 1960s and 1970s | Ars Technica)
Cover photo for a 1964 brochure for the PDS 1020 Digital Computer.
Cloggy—- The first computer I used for NC programming was a tiny thing like this, it was connected by telephone to a Mainframe in Valley Forge, Indiana so we were on Eastern Standard Time or some such. The heat sensitive printer would shoot a whole reel of paper up the wall if you did not press the keys in the right order, and if you left the prints near a window they would turn blue all over. They don’t know they are born these days, now if they had to programme in DOS—-
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