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Wire it up
I got curious about what we were looking at, and it turns out Ken Shirriff was too because he already crawled down this rabbithole.
This is a photograph by Berenice Abbott of a woman wiring up an IBM 405 “Alphabetic Accounting Machine” from 1934.
Here’s another angle from the same set:
Date posted: 2025/08/29 01:08:04
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Date liked: 2025/08/29 17:08:30
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Liked from: Dinosaur's Pen
Dinosaur's Pen reblogged from: commodorez
Originally posted by: retrowar
Tagged:
black and white photography 292
vintage computer 66
historical technology 8
early computing 6
mid-century technology 4
history of computing 4
computer programming 3
woman engineer 1
electronic wiring 1
electromechanical computer 1