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An Early Bird satellite is surrounded by 480 phones in this 1960’s publicity photo issued by Hughes Aircraft Co
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Many things to love here in this 1984 photo. The TRS-80 model 100. That guerrilla acoustic modem coupler. And whatever the “Computing Across America Technomadic Bicycle Adventure” was. (Guessing it was some RS promo)
PFC Gladys Bellon and Sgt. Robert Scott test lines in the frame room of the Victory switchboard at U. S. headquarters at Babelsburg, Germany, in preparation for the Potsdam Conference, 7/15/1945.
Image Description: A woman and a man, both in Army uniforms, kneel on the floor next to large racks of telephone wires. Both are holding telephone receivers to their ears to test lines.
(Source: catalog.archives.gov, via retropopcult)