Historical Computing Environments

Images of individuals working with vintage computing systems, showcasing mainframes and early programming setups in a retro tech environment.

1960s 1970s RCA COMPUTER SYTEM MAINFRAME MAN SITTING PRINTER

A software technician works on a simulation of an anti-ship missile engagement for use in electronic warfare effectiveness tests that are conducted in the Central Target Simulator facility at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1960s MAN PROGRAMMER ENTERING DATA ON SYSTEM CONSOLE KEYBOARD IN COMPUTER ROOM WITH MAINFRAME TAPE STORAGE DRIVE MACHINES

1960s 1970s RCA COMPUTER SYTEM MAINFRAME MAN SITTING PRINTER

The Simulation, Checkout and Training System (SCATS) provides realistic simulation of manned space flight missions for flight crew and flight control personnel.

1960S Two Businessman Programming Large Mainframe Computer Surrounded By Data Storage Tape Drives Office Indoor Look4

Officials at the main console of Univac 1108, 1972

IBM 704 Computer

This is the main computing console for the Data Reduction Complex and is the heart of the NASA-MSC postflight data processing and reduction for America's manned space flight activities. Information telemetried back from orbiting spacecraft is processed here in order that scientists and engineers can perform a complete post-flight analysis of the mission.

A831265 U12N MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR ALCOVE BUTTON-UP JOHN ALLEN (Project Engineer) SEP 20 83EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/20/1983 ALCOVE; ALCOVE BUTTON-UP; BUTTON UP; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR; MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR TEST; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR-BUTTON UP historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A881365 U12N MISTY ECHO BLDG 12-909 RECORDING FACILITY DONOHOE (PROJECT ENGINEER) DEC 7 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 12/7/1988 BLDG 12-909; BLDG 12-909 RECORDING FACILITY; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & COMPUTATIONAL EQUI; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MISTY ECHO; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; RECORDING FACILITY; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12N MISTY ECHO BLDG 12-909 historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Monitoring Plint at Enköping Radio Station.

A720101 B-72 TRAILER INTERIOR S. SANDGREN (project engineer) NOV 8 72 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/8/1972 COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & DATA PROCESSING; CONTROL CENTER; CONTROL CONSOLE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL UNIT; DATA PROCESSING; DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT; DATA RECORDERS; DATA SYSTEMS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TAPES, MAGNETIC; TEST SITES; TRAILERS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; TRAILER INTERIOR historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Vintage Photograph. Worcester Trust Company Installation of Ramac IBM Computer at Worcester Massachusetts.

Vintage Photograph. Analyzing retro computer systems for vintage technology insights.

Personnel inside the data processing center for COBRA DANE, an intelligence-gathering phased-array system specially constructed to monitor Soviet ballistic missile testing on Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Base: Shemya Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Kristianstad 1945. Register control panel.

1980s Air Traffic Controllers - An interior view of the Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Facility operated by members of the 1946th Information Systems Squadron at Templehof Central Airport.

OPERADORAS DE CLAVIJAS. Location: EDIFICIO TELEFONICA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Interior View of CIF

A760328 NON-EVENT SURVEILLANCE SENSORS EXP K. WILEY (PROJECT ENGINEER) MAR 12 76 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/12/1976 DATA RECORDERS; DIGITEC 6150 DIGITAL RECORDER; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; PAPERS; RECORDER STATION; RECORDERS, TICKER TAPE; SURVEILLANCE SENSORS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WILEY, K.; SURVEILLANCE SENSORS EXP historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

State Railways, SJ CTC facility, Remote Agency in Kiruna

Telephone exchange, Stockholm Central Station

released air traffic controller

Work in the computer room at the Headquarters, Naval Space Surveillance System goes on around the clock. Base: Dahlgren State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

AMN Gary Mathis and SSGT Gennaro Riccitelli from the 2048th Communications Squadron, monitor on-line data in the Weather Switch to isolate a system fault. Base: Carswell Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

BBC Photograph: A TV Control Room -- The control room of Studio G, second largest of the British Broadcasting Corporation's television studios at Lime Grove in London. In the foreground is the sound mixer desk where the studio microphones is controlled and blended. Beyond the glass partition shown in the background, facing the monitor screens on which the televised picture is shown, sit the several technicians. The engineer at the front desk can, if he wishes, isolate himself from the production team by closing the glass panel and can then listen at whatever volume of sound he chooses without disturbing his colleagues. May 29, 1952.

Photograph taken within the Telstar Satellite communications stations at Andover, Maine (above) and at Goonhilly Downs, England (below). Dated 20th century

Analog Computer Used in Fuel Systems Building

Simulation, Checkout and Training System (SCATS) provides realistic simulation of manned space flight missions for flight crew and flight control personnel.

IBM programmers work at a cathode ray monitor with a touch-screen pointer. Ca. 1980.

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Personnel at the Space Transportation System (STS) Launch Control Center prepare for the launch of the shuttle Columbia. Base: Kennedy Space Center State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An interior view of the control room of Space Launch Complex Three during the simulated launching of an Atlas NDS-5 spacecraft. Base: Los Angeles Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Technicians monitor the display and control consoles of the ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance system. The mount controls and monitors for the two telescopes capable of viewing the sky in real time are visible. Base: White Sands Missile Test Range State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A view of computer stations, printers and facsimile machines that are part of American terminus of the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link. Clocks on the wall give Moscow, Greenwich Mean (Zulu) and local times; a regular facsimile machine test schedule is at right. The link was established by the US and Soviet governments in 1963 to ensure open lines of communication during potential crisis situations and reduce the risk of accidental war..

Flight controllers in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) listen to a presentation by STS-26 crewmembers on the fourth day of Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, orbital mission. Instrumentation and Communications Officers (INCOs) Harold Black (left foreground) and John F. Muratore and other controllers view a television (TV) transmission of the crew on a screen in front of the FCR as each member relates some inner feelings while paying tribute to the 51L Challenger crew.

Radioman 1ST Class Maroney checks a circuit on the audio patch panels in the Technical Control Department at the Naval Telecommunications Center. Base: Hampton Roads, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Radio cabin on "Gripsholm" in 1973.

A730113 INSTRUMENTATION TRAI B-72 RACK # 13 S.SANDGREN (Project Engineer) JAN 1 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/1/1973 COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & DATA PROCESSING; CONTROL CENTER; CONTROL CONSOLE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL UNIT; DATA PROCESSING; DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT; DATA RECORDERS; DATA SYSTEMS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TRAILERS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; INSTRUMENTATION TRAI historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A1C Samuel Turcotte operates a videotape console, taping classes at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Base: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base State: Ohio (OH) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1950S Hand On Control Panel Of Remington Rand Univac Computer

Kungsholm's telephone station, Stockholm. The Riksuppsättningen.

Radar installation MR 466

Interior View of CIF

Workers in the Space Station Processing Facility control room monitor computers during a Multi-Equipment Interface Test (MEIT) in the U.S. Lab Destiny. Members of the STS-98 crew are taking part in the MEIT checking out some of the equipment in the Lab. During the STS-98 mission, the crew will install the Lab on the station during a series of three space walks. The crew comprises five members: Commander Kenneth D. Cockrell, Pilot Mark L. Polansky, and Mission Specialists Robert L. Curbeam Jr., Thomas D. Jones (Ph.D.) and Marsha S. Ivins. The mission will provide the station with science research facilities and expand its power, life support and control capabilities. The U.S. Laboratory Module continues a long tradition of microgravity materials research, first conducted by Skylab and later Shuttle and Spacelab missions. Destiny is expected to be a major feature in future research, providing facilities for biotechnology, fluid physics, combustion, and life sciences research. The Lab is

A view of the radio receiver board in the combat information center aboard the guided missile destroyer USS RICHARD E. BYRD (DDG-23). Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

New York: 1954. IBM 650 Data Processing System, the first mass produced computer. IBM sold 450 of them the first year. Acessories include up to 4 disk units, each holding 6 Mb of data..

Standard radio factory in Ulvsunda, Stockholm. Intrimning of Räknecrets in SRT's computer Censor.

Interior of a computer lab, IBM Equipment Maintenance Console Area, 1957

View from the back of the Mission Control Center (MCC). Visible are the Flight Directors console (left front), the CAPCOM console (right front) and the Payloads console. Some of the STS 41-G crew can be seen on a large screen at the front of the MCC along with a map tracking the progress of the orbiter.

Department of the Army Civilian Fred Burton prepares to make video dubs at the Fort Sam Houston Audio/Visual Production Center on Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. Base: Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Interior view of the Mission Control Center

The new 10-by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory included high tech data acquisition and analysis systems. The reliable gathering of pressure, speed, temperature, and other data from test runs in the facilities was critical to the research process. Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s female employees, known as computers, recorded all test data and performed initial calculations by hand. The introduction of punch card computers in the late 1940s gradually reduced the number of hands-on calculations. In the mid-1950s new computational machines were installed in the office building of the 10-by 10-Foot tunnel. The new systems included this UNIVAC 1103 vacuum tube computerthe lab’s first centralized computer system. The programming was done on paper tape and fed into the machine. The 10-by 10 computer center also included the Lewis-designed Computer Automated Digital Encoder (CADDE) and Digital Automated Multiple Pressure Recorder (DAMPR) systems whi

Intergrated Systems Test (IST) personnel; 40x80ft w.t. control room after NFAC modification.

1981 - A technician operates the system console on the new UNIVAC 1100/83 computer at the Fleet Analysis Center, Corona Annex, Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, California..

Computer technicians man terminals in the Electronic Data Center of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station. Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A Milva in the telephone exchange in the Bunker at the Headquarters General Staff in the Princess Julianakanne, The Hague.

A87679 NON-EVENT COMPUTER ROOM BOBBY EDWARDS (PROJECT ENGINEER) APR 9 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/9/1987 COMPUTER ROOMS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & COMPUTATIONAL EQUI; COMPUTERS BY TYPE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; NON-EVENT COMPUTER ROOM historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

SGT Jordanna Schulman monitors European Broadcasting Service equipment. The service provides newscasts to U.S. military stationed on Lajes Island. Country: Azores (AZR)

A801182 CROSBYTOWN, TX SOLAR POWER PROJECT WILLIAM MCCULLOCH AUG 19 80 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/19/1980 ABOVEGROUND TESTING; AGT; CROSBYTON SOLAR POWER PROJECT; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MCCULLOCH, WILLIAM; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTS; POWER; SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR GRIDIRON CONCEPT; SOLAR HEATING DEVICES; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR TESTING; SOLAR TESTS; SOLAR THERMAL ELECTRIC POWER; SOLAR THERMAL TESTING; SUNLIGHT; TEST SITES; TEXAS; TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY; CROSBYTOWN SOLAR POWER PROJECT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

1980s 1990s MAN USING COMPUTER SPECIAL EFFECTS

White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff advance trip to Costa Rica. White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff trip to Costa Rica in advance of President John F. Kennedy's visit; several unidentified men set up equipment.

Interior View of CIF

FAST CTAS system operation trials at Dallas/Ft Worth, Tx (DFW TRACON ATC Automation Tool)

Computer technicians man terminals in the Electronic Data Center of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station. Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Matsushita Computer Cassette-TV and home computer system used a touch screen interface and a tape cassette drive. Ca. 1980.

Old televisions being recycled at Jindabyne rubbish dump in the Snowy Mountains, Australia.

Virtual Environment Telepresence workstation, simulated Mars Exploration shows William Briggs with EXOS Dexterous interface (virtual hand).

X33 COMBUSTION WARE IGNITION FULL SCALE PROTOYPE TEST RIG

English journalists' journey to Kiruna. Ticket expedition, ticket machine.

Alvin Seiff at Hypervelocity Free Flight Facility control room at the Ames Research Center.

ORDENADOR PERSONAL.

An interior view of the information processing center computer room. Base: K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1958 - Electronic Machine Computing Branch, 704 computing lab; (left - right) William A Mersman and Marcelline K Chartz (aka - Marcie Smith) with IBM 704 Data Processor.

1960s DEPARTMENT STORE SELLING COLOR TELEVISIONS PORTABLES AND CONSOLES - s15142 HAR001 HARS OLD FASHIONED

USA, Florida, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center. Apollo-era firing room in the Apollo, Saturn V Center (Large format sizes available)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Mission Control Center, flight controllers work during the Gemini I mission, an orbital test of the Titan-II launch vehicle. The Mercury Mission Control Center in Florida played a key role in the United States' early spaceflight program. Located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the original part of the building was constructed between 1956 and 1958, with additions in 1959 and 1963. The facility officially was transferred to NASA on Dec. 26, 1963, and served as mission control during all the Project Mercury missions, as well as the first three flights of the Gemini Program, when it was renamed Mission Control Center. With its operational days behind, on June 1, 1967, the Mission Control Center became a stop on the public tour of NASA facilities until the mid-90s. In 1999, much of the equipment and furnishings from the Flight Control Area were moved to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where they became part of the exhibit there. The building

Closed Loop Breathing System

Speed test at Moholm. Sj. 991 kilometer post 297

Calculator machine.

Navy electronic and optical company (Meob) on board to work on an electronic installation in June 1989.

Technician uses cad system to design computer circuits

A821521 AREA 17 GFSE JERRY CUDERMAN (PROJECT ENGINEER) SEP 14 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/14/1982 AREA 17; COMPUTER ROOMS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & COMPUTATIONAL EQUI; COMPUTERS BY TYPE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GFSE; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; AREA 17-GFSE historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A Milva in the telephone exchange in the Bunker at the Headquarters General Staff in the Princess Julianakanne, The Hague.

A view of civilian and Air Force personnel at work in the Launch Control Center (LCC) of the Vertical Integration Building (VIB). Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Control centre of a disused factory

parque tecnologias ambientales de mallorca inside the monorail

Virtual Environment Telepresence workstation, simulated Mars Exploration shows William Briggs with EXOS Dexterous interface (virtual hand)

Vintage Photograph. TV Master control room.

Life Sceince Division Facilities, Labs and Personnel (Code-SL) Li-Chun Wu

Director's BoothCNNAtlantaGeorgiaUSA

Technicians work with computers in the Global Weather Center. Base: Offutt Air Force Base State: Nebraska (NE) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Senior engineer taking phone instructions whilst monitoring controls in ship's engine room.

Electronic equipment at the Depot Electronic and Air Force Material KL (DELM).

Vintage Photograph. Vintage computers showcase the evolution of technology from the past.

old computer 1979.

FAST CTAS system operation trials at Dallas/Ft Worth, Tx (DFW TRACON ATC Automation Tool)

Data Center. Know - room

N-258 NAS Facility computer room (construction)

A Computer Engineer with Computer Analysis Systems of Huntsville, Alabama, installs software at the Joint Project Optic Cobra Operations Center, Logan Heights..

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