Office workers 50 years ago

Office workers 50 years ago

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In the 1960s, Lawrence Lackham, an employee of the largest and legendary telecommunications corporation Bell Labs, photographed his colleagues at work. Now, 50 years later, we can see what office workers and office life looked like back then.

(Total 18 photos)

Office workers 50 years ago

Office workers 50 years ago

1. Personal computer, polka dot dress, handbag

Office workers 50 years ago

2. Mini-computer of the time Honeywell DDP-516. Used to connect dozens of computer terminals via a 50KB modem line. Today, this function is performed by network switches (slang switch)

Office workers 50 years ago

3. And here are the terminals

Office workers 50 years ago

4.

Office workers 50 years ago

5. Head of the computer department with an oscilloscope

Office workers 50 years ago

6. Desk of an extravagant production manager

Office workers 50 years ago

7. Computer room, which today is called the data center. It was located in the basement of the building for security reasons. No natural light sources, only decoration made by employees.

Office workers 50 years ago

8. IBM supercomputer. This "monster" had 1 MB of RAM, 648 MB of hard drive and was worth millions of dollars!

Office workers 50 years ago

9. Fooling around with an IBM supercomputer

Office workers 50 years ago

10. Apparently, there was no dress code at Bell Labs. Dressed "perky"

Office workers 50 years ago

11. Data backup center on reels of tapes. Probably makes backups?

Office workers 50 years ago

12. No one bothered much with the design of the premises. Everywhere white walls and the same type of tables in the workplace. but the people are cheerful. Programmer

Office workers 50 years ago

13. The office was decorated on their own. The author and his creation on the wall

Office workers 50 years ago

14. Library on tapes

Office workers 50 years ago

15. Break for tea. After 50 years, in a similar environment, they rest in many institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Office workers 50 years ago

16. Demonstration room. Presentations were held here, slides were shown from the projector

Office workers 50 years ago

17. Computer operators

Office workers 50 years ago

18. New prototype computer terminal

Keywords: 60s | Archive | Office

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