Vintage work crew photos

[bruce.desertrat]

Notice the absence of CRT displays or PC keyboards. Today's generation would be as lost in that room as if they walked into an alien spaceship. Writing software on punch cards and troubleshooting your program from the printout of errors was challenging and required many hours. But I certainly learned a lot about computer logic during those days.

The operators console has a keyboard, but it's not visible in that picture. Output was the teletype next to the woman on the right. The oscilloscop was for monitoring up to 1000 memory locations. Per Wikipedia :

"The operators console had three columns of decimal coded switches that allowed any of the 1000 memory locations to be displayed on the oscilloscope. Since the mercury delay line memory stored bits in a serial format, a programmer or operator could monitor any memory location continuously and with sufficient patience, decode its contents as displayed on the scope."