Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old (2019)

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The clean visual design of these consoles is just beautiful. It reminds me of the aesthetic of Kubrick's 2001 from the same era.

> It reminds me of the aesthetic of Kubrick's 2001 from the same era.

AFAIR IBM was involved in the making of 2001... But when they learned that it was about a computer "killing people", they wanted all the IBM logos removed.

"HAL" is "IBM" with each literal shifted one step.

Also, 'VMS' -> WNT.

I'm going get ahead start on the next Open AI by staring a company called Pqfo BJ.

Shit, I discovered the secret of the Amazon alphabet-soup names

Like something that Dieter Rams would design (makes me wonder if he did have a hand in it).

The Star Trek TOS look to these systems are one of the reasons I went into Electrical Engineering/Comp Sci. My dad and I went to the annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Expos in the 70s, and they would be showing off their data centers with these in them. I thought it looked so cool and sophisticated.

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