"At all stages of a computation progress may be seen by means of the indicator lights which show the unit in operation, the operation being performed and results being achieved." Console and control desk for the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) January 1948
skeeting IBM? that’s follow-worthy 😍
I had no idea how lovely those things were in color.
Were the lights just marketing and show or could someone look at them and know what was happening.
This wasn’t just slapped together. Someone designed this. Like, sat down at a drafting table and really designed it. It’s beautiful.
Looks like the inspiration for the machine in "Desk Set"
Just need some of those big vacuum disks and all set.
I would get so much more work done if my desk looked like that. I would be so jazzed. Like I was living in the future.
Pretty sure this thing held an entire planet hostage on a Star Trek episode.
Blinkenlight control panels had a majestic run in computing history