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Requests to identify a historical computer. Whole, self-contained machines only; use [identify-this-card] instead for extension cards.

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Can anybody recognize this? https://youtu.be/bR1pGF2XOMw?t=112 Looks like disk drives. Edit: Image from the original link: Other shots of this device from the official music video, showing the whole ...
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All I've got is a picture of the Servus 7771 terminal, which was apparently used to access the Servus 100 host (whose manual is visible on the photo): There appears to be nothing on the web about ...
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I was watching "You Only Live Twice" (1967), and I saw this "Burroughs" computer: What's the name of this "Burroughs" computer?
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Impossible to read exact model, anyone here can recognize the exact model and year of this telex machine? From the 1971 Italian movie Senza via d'uscita, minute 35-40. Some sites report it as T100S, ...
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This PC appears in "American Kickboxer" at minute 60. Anyone recognize model?
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Anyone known which pc is this? Seem an Amstrad to me but I don't know the model. Any idea? In this other screenshot I recognize the good old monitors with green color and black which I has also on my ...
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The 1982-10 issue of BYTE has an advertisement from Data-Rite on page 293 for an "Astro" series of computers, the NIC-ASTRO I, II and III: I've done a bit of searching, and found nothing ...
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I have been told from a former IBM employee that there's a third model of System/23 other than the 5322 and 5324. It was application-specific and had a printer embedded in it. However he doesn't ...
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At first glance, the central unit looks a little bit like a PDP-10 with magnetic tape drive. Really interesting are its terminals: In a desktop enclosure, a small text-only screen and some kind of ...
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This one is a AS/7000 Mainframe of National Advanced System I cannot identify the microcomputers (or disk cabinets, or hardware) in the second image (the three "parts" in white and blue ...
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During one of my early jobs, circa 1987, I wrote some stepper motor control and data acquisition software for an MS-DOS computer in Turbo Pascal. I'm trying to recall the computer model. I'm pretty ...
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In 2006 at Birmingham airport, they used beige keyboards with several dark red keys, yet without a separate navigation (cursor, PgUp, PgDn etc.) key section. One of the red keys (roughly at the same ...
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I am trying to identify an old computer, but I cannot find anything like it. There are no labels to indicate the manufacturer. It is likely from the 70's or 80's, and was the first computer to be used ...
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There are two Boards: The first one has Chips with the name "Sony 501 0C 185", "Sony 502 0J 043", "Sony 504 1B 002 504-3", "Sony 509 01 017 509-00", "Sony ...
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In 1975, my high school computer lab (Maryland USA) had 3 computing devices/terminals. One was a Teletype connected to an offsite mainframe via an acoustical modem. Our class assignments were on this. ...
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