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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 04:35

HELL CHROMAGRAPH is the best product name ever created

also omg I want that sweater

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Descendants

Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 04:41

deeply upsetting that this was the final Linotype logo

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 04:49

what the FUCK is going on with the phone jacks mounted on the wall?? is this like, a manual PBX?? why is one of them Sony?? they also look like British connectors, which is weird because this photo was taken in Detroit...

also the image is named photoshop goddess which is adorable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scanner#/media/File:Photoshop_goddess_version_1.05_(3378276180).jpg

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 04:59

oh to be a Linotype operator in 1980s Dresden...

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 05:03

oh HELL yes

there are SO many great photos of 1980s Machinery and People doing Things in here

I have no idea how to link it, but searching for "VEB GRAFISCHER GROSSBETRIEB VÖLKERFREUNDSCHAFT DRESDEN" seems to bring them all up

https://www.deutschefotothek.de

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Written by vx. princess "size_t queen" grace :qvp: on 2025-01-07 at 04:52

@nkizz Could be for networking? I think I can make out "drum transfer" on one of them, I'm guessing you could dial up machines in other parts of the building?

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 04:53

@BestGirlGrace that would be the greatest LAN of all time. They would all need some kind of line voltage induced though...

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Written by Bruno Philipe on 2025-01-07 at 05:05

@nkizz I'd wager it's a manual patchboard*. Since this was before we became chronically online, a computer only needed to scream at another one on occasion, and so I guess it would make sense to have a way to wire it to a phone line that was easier than messing with cables manually behind each computer, but that didn't demand the complexity of a pbx.

correction: *patchboard is the word I had in mind

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Written by Nigel Wadsworth on 2025-01-07 at 05:11

@nkizz I love the kiddie lock on the Macintosh II floppy drive :) We won’t have no ‘sneaker net’ in this office thank you. You will use LocalTalk and like it. @Cdespinosa

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Written by Bruce Elrick on 2025-01-07 at 06:39

@nkizz

Those square bricks on the wall look like standard RJ-11 POTS demarcation terminals that were ubiquitous, including singly in a house.

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Written by Jeff Noxon on 2025-01-07 at 13:35

@nkizz those are completely typical US surface mount phone jacks.

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-07 at 14:02

@jeff they're not RJ11 though

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Written by Jeff Noxon on 2025-01-07 at 14:28

@nkizz They’re RJ something, I don’t know how you can tell from the photo they’re not RJ11. It looks like they have splitters plugged into some of them?

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Written by europlus :autisminf: on 2025-01-07 at 22:04

@nkizz PhoneNet was Farallon’s version if LocalTalk.

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Written by spork (sleepy) on 2025-01-07 at 13:11

@nkizz I think I saw a similar piece of equipment at the printing museum in Haverhill

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Written by F4GRX Sébastien on 2025-01-07 at 13:30

@nkizz woah this machine is seriously overengineered!

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Written by vxo on 2025-01-07 at 13:31

@f4grx @nkizz i bet that monster uses a Hammatsu photodetector tube at its business end

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Written by F4GRX Sébastien on 2025-01-07 at 13:35

@vxo @nkizz Really looks like it would!

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