Vintage (out of service) fractionating technology control panels and electro-mechanical gauges in the control room of MOL Plc. Algyo Gas Plant.
photo: me
Synchrophasotron control center, Dubna, Russia, 1968
Cable-TV converter that can handle 30 channels, 1973
watch television monitors in the studio where closed captioning is done. More than 3,500 hours of programs have been captioned by the agency since it started in 1981. [TPL Archives, 1988]
The IBM Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) computer system, brought online in 1958 to direct the US radar and missile defense network. Consisting of 20 separate mammoth computer installations, each using 60,000 vacuum tubes housed in a 1 acre building, SAGE was easily the largest and most complex computer in the world.
Need an ashtray? The SAGE has you covered.
It's a beautiful piece of kit.
Control room, November 7 thermal power plant, Várpalota, 1951. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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