Jul 15, 2025
Do you have the courage to save 50% on your next computer? Ad for the Data General Eclipse minicomputer system - 1974.
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Do you have the courage to save 50% on your next computer? Ad for the Data General Eclipse minicomputer system - 1974.
Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC), MIT 1962.
A page from Sperry UNIVAC’s computer brochure - 1976.
60s era Sperry Rand UNIVAC nameplate.
Front cover: UNIVAC Defense System’s CP-890 shipboard computer brochure - 1967.
The best way to keep ahead of the times. Eclipse S/250 computer. Ad for the Data General Eclipse S/250 computer system - 1979.
A page from UNIVAC Defense System’s CP-890 shipboard computer brochure - 1967.
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