1960s technology

AMPEX VR-1000 video tape recorder (1958) @ Berlin, Germany

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Phone designed by Henry Dreyfuss The dial on this telephone was based on the dial number plate used on public payphones. the letters and numbers were placed outside the finger wheel. With the new placement, dragging fingers and pencils would no longer deface the characters. The overall size of the dial was also extended from the existing 3 inch dial to four and one quarter inches. Also, the user could adjust the loudness of the bell by making adjustments on the bottom of the phone. This…

July 16: Antique - RCA TR-70C 2-inch Quadruplex Video Tape Recorder (VTR). VPT bought the 1,800 lb piece of equipment in 1976, and used it until 1991. #VPTJulyPix Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150964338056242=a.108925231241.98039.104995561241=1

The first transistor-based differential equation analyzer @ Scout’s Atomic Flash. AKAT-1 – The first transistor-based differential equation analyzer built by Polish computer science and…

When you look back at how people talked about and used computers in the 1960s, it's easy to get a feel for how exciting the technological advances were at the time. It was a whole new wild frontier.

When I was eight, this is exactly what I believed all devices would someday resemble. The future is pink and dial-up.