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Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Toot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!

(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)

Photograph of the front panel of an IBM System/360 mainframe—an adult person height red box about 1.5 metres deep, with a panel of blinkenlights and rotary dials (and some buttons). A desk sits in front of it, presumably for the operator's teletype printer.