Photos: IBM machine, City Hall (1961)

Photo: The Library of Virgina

Photo: Library of Virginia

1. [Jake0748]

   Who are these people? And are they authorized to be digging around in the guts of the data-processing machines?

2. [zikman]

   lool, city hall. I live about a block or two away

3. [schmod]

   I like the vent hood…

4. [Anonymous]

   The seond picture looks like a 407 lister – a machine used to list your output (cards) after they were punched out. The board she’s holding is used to perform crude programming on the format of the output by moving the wires around. Ahh the good old days…

5. [mappo]

   Does that count as redundant use of an acronym?

6. [strider_mt2k]

   Looks like they’re changing air filters.

   Fun!

7. [dculberson]

   Mappo, naah.. It’s a machine made by International Business Machines. So it’s an International Business Machines machine. Kind of like if you buy yogurt from TCBY, you have TCBY yogurt, not TCBY itself. But you don’t use an ATM machine, you use an ATM. Probably a Diebold ATM.