pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

In the National Library in Canberra AU.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar

It's only a terminal and not a computer. It is also relatively new, 90ish. as the CRT corners are quite square and not round.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

But it's an oldie!

BebuLamar

I meant it's not old enough to be your missing computer. I think you used computer older than that.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I'm still trying to figure which is missing....

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

From his response, I think that Longshadow "lusts" after the computer pmorin posted, grin.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Where is your mind?

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Oh, that has been missing in action for some time . . .

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

It’s showing a monitor that's from 1986. The keyboard is an 1980s model. The computer box was underneath.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

It is probably one you may have had back in the day. 😆

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Oie, I've used/had lots over time, since 1980-ish.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

And I thought I was the only one🤯

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Ken Olson, a MIT grad and creator of the “Worldwind” computer, was the founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a great mini computer company. In its heyday it grew to 130,000 employees with annual revenues of $14+ billion. I worked there for 15 years. I joined them in 1976 when they were at 10,000 employees. In the summer of ‘77 they hired another 11,000 employees in the span of three months. They couldn’t make PDP-11 mini computers fast enough, and when they introduced the VAX line of mini computers customers were tinkled pink when they “only” had to wait 14-16 months for their order. Salespeople at DEC were mainly just order takers for years. No actual “selling” needed to go on. The sky was the limit at DEC.
One day in 1986 I was in the “Mill” in Maynard Mass (site of the first DEC bldg.) and dropped by Ken’s office to introduce myself, and asked him what he thought of PC’s. He said “they’re just toys” and said one day the world will all standardize on his DEC workstations.
That was the beginning of the end for DEC. Ken was removed a couple of years later, DEC was eventually sold to Tandem Computers, who was eventually bought by Compaq PC computers. I believe HP eventually bought Compaq. Ironically, HP was one of DEC’s major competitors in its heyday. Talk about a full circle moment.
How a man that smart couldn’t foresee how “Moore’s Law” (compute power doubles every 18 months) would impact the computer industry is beyond me.