What Computer is This and Who is This Guy?

From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Oct 25 14:20:19 2001

The CPU cabinets in the back look like the ones for a 7090. The 7090 came
out around 1960.

Peace... Sridhar

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dan McDonald wrote:

> Here's a picture from 1966 of an IBM computer at the IBM computing center on
> Manhattan (New York City, New York USA). The text for the photo says that
> the computer is being used to make a payroll calculation.
>
> Visible are 4 big-fridge-sized reel-reel tape devices, the console with
> operator seated at it, and some other things in the background.
>
> What's the computer model? Does anybody know who this guy (operator)
> is/was?
>
> Just a neat photo.
>
> It's about a 150k jpg file at this url:
>
> http://www.sover.net/~danm/computer_room.jpg
>
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