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book cover illustrations, respectively, by Doug Beekman and Tristan Elwell

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IBM Disk Operating System (1986)

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Welp, a friend figured it out!

It's a Telindus S 102 or Alcatel S. 100 CIVI S 102

And it's totally a telex type interface from the early 1980s. Not a computer, not even a computer terminal. This thing was purpose built for telex communications for use in France.

#telex #telindus s 102 #telindus #alcatel s. 100 #civi s 102

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Alright, I've been trying to figure out precisely what this is. Initially I thought it was a computer interface, maybe a terminal, but probably not the entire machine. Then I spotted Telex machines that had VDU interfaces (letting you type your message on a screen before transmitting), and this seemed to fit the bill.

One friend spotted the Alcatel logo on the second image. I can't read the badge on the first photo, it's too small. One of these photos showed up at an Italian maker/computer show in Milan back in March 2014, which is where the second photo comes from without any context because its regurgitated in stock photo sets. The model "S 102" turns up nothing useful. The AZERTY keyboard does back up that this is likely French in origin.

All of these images keep seeming to be floating around the web without any additional context or captioning, because everyone keeps recirculating them for the sake of aesthetic (specifically cassette-futurism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), which means the search for concrete information and history is muddied.

If you know precisely what this is, speak up.

#this shit makes me mad #telex #alcatel

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Workers prepare the Apollo 11 S-IVB (SA-506) for mating of the Instrument Unit (pictured left), which houses the guidance, control and other systems of the Saturn V.

Date: March 21, 1969.

NASA ID: 69-HC-339, S69-74207

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4/21/2024

Missouri Botanical Garden

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UNIVAC 1219

#univac 1219 #univac

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Sony ad in Comptiq (1987)

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The Bytemaster from The Digital Group - 1978

bei Glaserei

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Replay ‘Virtua Racing’ SEGA 32X

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Pokemon Green (NES bootleg)

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Mario Bros. for Atari 2600.

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Workers lower the ASTP CSM-111 onto the SLA.

Date: March 3, 1975

NASA ID: 75-H-191A