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Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 01 Jun 2020, 03:42
by Ellipse
Starting at 6 minutes, 45 seconds through the end of this clip

https://www.huntleyarchives.com/preview ... 1&itemx=11

Seems to be an office for processing credit card authorizations/transactions. Clip from the late 1970s or early 1980s.

Imagine working in an office full of beam spring keyboards!

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 01 Jun 2020, 03:47
by depletedvespene
That clip! So many keyboards, so many monitors, the entire "banking section", all connected to the computer.


OTOH, I have one laptop and 40+ keyboards, so who am I to complain? :lol:


Thanks for sharing, Ellipse. :)

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 01 Jun 2020, 03:48
by Weezer
This is amazing! So sad that they all went to the grinder somewhere.

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 03 Jun 2020, 14:55
by shine
Awesome! What a lot of 3277!

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 03 Jun 2020, 15:30
by JP!
It's so beautiful :o

Maybe if we all work together we could build a room filled with beamsprings and accompanying female computer operators 8-)

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 03 Jun 2020, 17:13
by jacksonh22
I know of a similar video! Another room full of beamspring keyboards & terminals, however, this is more recent. These computers are not doing so well, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrx1tK5xcAk&t=4m20s

Starts at 4 minutes and 20 seconds

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 03 Jun 2020, 18:17
by Weezer
Holy shit. Someone needs to rescue those.

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 04 Jun 2020, 05:15
by jacksonh22
Weezer wrote: 03 Jun 2020, 18:17 Holy shit. Someone needs to rescue those.

Who wants to take a trip to Italy with me? Lol

Re: Room full of IBM beam spring keyboards!

Posted: 05 Jun 2020, 00:03
by Weezer
jacksonh22 wrote: 04 Jun 2020, 05:15
Weezer wrote: 03 Jun 2020, 18:17 Holy shit. Someone needs to rescue those.

Who wants to take a trip to Italy with me? Lol
We could pay for the trip in beamspring revenue :lol: