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These are photos from Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers, by John Alderman, with photographs by Mark Richards. There’s a sensual beauty to computers that I never appreciated until I saw these pictures. Click on this link to see the whole series.
The vacuum tubes photo is great! Is a pity that they were replaced by transistors, but I can't imagine how celulars were if they were made by thousands of this kind of tubes.
The vacuum tubes photo is great! Is a pity that they were replaced by transistors, but I can't imagine how celulars were if they were made by thousands of this kind of tubes.
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