Vintage Computer Rooms

Historical images of computer rooms from the 1980s, showcasing old technology, control panels, and a retro ambiance.

Vintage Photograph. Exploring retro video editing technology in a busy studio setting.
Vintage Photograph. Exploring retro video editing technology in a busy studio setting.
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Renovation of the Pentagon building. Removal of WECO communication switch. Base: Pentagon State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A view of the control panel for navigation lights, working lights and the ship's general alarm on the bridge of the aviation logistic ship USNS WRIGHT (T-AVB 3). The WRIGHT is among the ships taking part in exercise OCEAN VENTURE '88. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '88 Base: Usns Wright (T-AVB 3)
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1984 - The Command Post of the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Computer-generated images are projected on two large display screens..
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A87673 NON-EVENT COMPUTER ROOM BOBBY EDWARDS (PROJECT ENGINEER) APR 9 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/9/1987 COMPUTER ROOMS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & COMPUTATIONAL EQUI; COMPUTERS BY TYPE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; NON-EVENT COMPUTER ROOM historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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FAST CTAS system operation trials at Dallas/Ft Worth, Tx (DFW TRACON ATC Automation Tool)
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An interior view of the Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) center. Base: Macdill Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Control desk, Haut Fourneau B, Liege, Belgium, Europe
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Vintage reel-to-reel tape recorder on a workbench with various control knobs, buttons, and VU meters.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Hugh W. Harris, chief, Public Information Office, Kennedy Space Center.
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AIRMAN 1ST Class Maurice Jackson places personnel records on a microfiche card at the Micrographics Systems Branch of the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center. The Micrographics Systems Branch uses a microfiche system to maintain the personnel records of all active-duty officers and enlisted members of the Air Force. Base: Randolph Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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SILHOUETTED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER IN CONTROL TOWER USING BINOCULARS
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Close up of control panel gauges
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Machine
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Located at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. A view of a Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) system graphic terminals in use at Letterkenny Army Depot. Base: Letterkenny Army Depot State: Pennsylvania (PA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Airplane cockpit with flying command on control panel
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Mesa, Arizona: View of the Cockpit Control Panel in an AH-64 Apache Helicopter Training Simulator
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Telefonväxel i större kontor i Stockholm. 1980-tal
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Close-up of the cockpit in a C-5 Galaxy flight simulator
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Electric Power Control Room
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Control panel on gas boiler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Vintage Photograph. Exploring vintage computing technology: a throwback to early computer graphics and design innovations.
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(21 Aug. 1984) --- Astronaut Anna L. Fisher controls the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm from inside the 'orbiter' as part of her training program in the Johnson Space Center's Shuttle Mock-up and Integration Laboratory. Dr. Fisher, one of three mission specialists for mission 51-A, is inside the cabin portion of a trainer called the Manipulatory Development Facility (MDF). She is able to operate the arm in conjunction with an air bearing floor and to log a great deal of rehearsal time for her flight, on which the retrieval of a low-orbiting communications satellite is planned.
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Electronics Technician 1ST Class Chatol services an AN/FAC-6 fiber-optic communications system. Base: Naval Air Station, Key West State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The International Space Station (ISS) Payload Operations Center (POC) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, is the world's primary science command post for the International Space Station (ISS), the most ambitious space research facility in human history. The Payload Operations team is responsible for managing all science research experiments aboard the Station. The center is also home for coordination of the mission-plarning work of variety of international sources, all science payload deliveries and retrieval, and payload training and safety programs for the Station crew and all ground personnel. Within the POC, critical payload information from the ISS is displayed on a dedicated workstation, reading both S-band (low data rate) and Ku-band (high data rate) signals from a variety of experiments and procedures operated by the ISS crew and their colleagues on Earth. The POC is the focal point for incorporating research and experiment requirements from al
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Electronics Technician 3rd Class Smith and Electronics Technician 3rd Class Cordell repair a microwave circuit board in the Technical Control Center of the Naval Communication Area MASTER Station, Atlantic. Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The primary objective of the STS-35 mission was round the clock observation of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet and X-Ray astronomy with the Astro-1 observatory which consisted of four telescopes the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT); the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE); the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT); and the Broad Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT). The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Teams of controllers and researchers directed on-orbit science operations, sent commands to the spacecraft, received data from experiments aboard the Space Shuttle, adjusted mission schedules to take advantage of unexpected science opportunities or unexpected results, and worked with crew members to resolve problems with their experiments. D
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dan Phillips (left) and Donald Nielen, with United Space Alliance, watch a monitor as Jim Landy, NDE specialist with USA, prepares to examine a Reinforced Carbon Carbon panel (on the table, center) using flash thermography. A relatively new procedure at KSC, thermography uses high intensity light to heat areas of the panels. The panels are then immediately scanned with an infrared camera. As the panels cool, any internal flaws are revealed. The gray carbon composite RCC panels are attached to the leading edge of the wing of the orbiters. They have sufficient strength to withstand the aerodynamic forces experienced during launch and reentry, which can reach as high as 800 pounds per square foot. The operating range of RCC is from minus 250º F to about 3,000º F, the temperature produced by friction with the atmosphere during reentry. The panels will be installed on the orbiter Discovery, designated for the first Return to Flight mission, STS-114.
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MSGT Tim Woodall of Headquarters, Pacific Communications Division, works with the Advanced Prophet High Frequency Prediction subsystem of the Tactical Frequency Record Management System. The subsystem allows a manager to select the optimum frequency for use by a given command and control system. Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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sony computers person working on computer (with drawings)
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The switchgear terminal at Stockholm Central
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Underwater views from the submarine Atlantis Tours in Hawaii.
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Data Processing Technician 2nd Class J. Gresham checks on the progress of a computer program that she is running. Gresham works in the Navy Regional Data Automatic Center. Base: Naval Air Station, Jacksonville State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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An engineer at AeroVironment's Design Development Center in Simi Valley, California, closely inspects a set of silicon solar cells for potential defects. The cells, fabricated by SunPower, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, are among 64,000 solar cells which have been installed on the Helios Prototype solar-powered aircraft to provide power to its 14 electric motors and operating systems.
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A photographer's mate uses an E-6 Houston Fearless processor at the station's lab. Base: Naval Air Station, Miramar State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Electronic test equipment
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in a Quality trailer in the Launch Pad 39B Area unwrap a new Enhanced Main Events Controller (E-MEC) to be installed in Shuttle Endeavour. The original E-MEC in Endeavour became suspect during the Jan. 31 launch countdown and mission STS-99 was delayed when NASA managers decided to replace it. Each Shuttle carries two enhanced master events controllers (E-MECs), which provide relays for onboard flight computers to send signals to arm and fire pyrotechnics that separate the solid rockets and external tank during assent. The E-MECs are located in the orbiter's aft compartment and both are needed for the Shuttle to be cleared for flight. Currently Endeavour and Columbia are the only two orbiters with the E-MECs. Built by Rockwell's Satellite Space Electronics Division, Anaheim, Calif., each unit weighs 65 pounds and is approximately 20 inches long, 13 inches wide and 8 inches tall. Previously, three Shuttle flights have been scrubbed or delayed due to
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Want to sit in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle and watch astronauts work in outer space At StenniSphere, you can do that and much more. StenniSphere, the visitor center at John C. Stennis space Center in Hancock County, Miss., presents 14,000-square-feet of interactive exhibits that depict America's race for space as well as a glimpse of the future. Stennisphere is open free of charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
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Vintage Photograph. Exploring vintage computing: a glimpse into 1980s office technology evolution.
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Engineer operates robotics
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Team of young technicians working together on servers at the data center using laptop and tablet computers
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SGT James Case displays a circuit board from a computer-driven sound effects system used in driver training. Case is assigned to the Tactical Air Command's Training Systems Center. Base: Luke Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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MISC: TELEVISION. A news T.V. set.
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Straight on medium close-up of USAF AIRMAN First Class Mary Colin, a Satellite Systems Controller with the 4th Space Operations Squadron (SOPS), Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. A1C Colin is assigned to a tenant unit on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Of her job, A1C Colin says, "With my computer system, I can track an object about the size of a baseball thats floating 250 miles into space. How many other computer geeks can brag about that". Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Technicians operate a computer terminal at the Rocket Propulsion Lab. Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A host robot, Starquester 2000, helps describe for visitors the accomplishments of unsung space heroes space probes and their role in space exploration. The walk-through Robot Scouts exhibit is part of the $13 million expansion to KSC's Visitor Complex. Other additions include a walk-through Robot Scouts exhibit, a wildlife exhibit, and the film Quest for Life in a new 300-seat theater, plus an International Space Station-themed ticket plaza, featuring a structure of overhanging solar panels and astronauts performing assembly tasks. Inaugurated three decades ago, the Visitor Complex is now one of the top five tourist attractions in Florida. It is located on S.R. 407, east of I-95, within the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge