hollerith

City, personnel, IBM room

from The Library of Virginia

• 37 older comments, and then…
• James Holme said:

  These pictures are great. I guess this is an very early Mainframe. Very different to the current range of Blade servers :). Thank you for the pictures.
  
  James Oxford (UK)

• David said:

  lighting is great. anyone know how it's accomplished? bare bulb? parabolic?

• rf44 said:

  That's not even a true computer; it's a punched-card tabulating machine that is programmed by means of attaching patch cables to the board that the woman is inserting into the machine.

• uka_2002 said:

  to drauh
  there ws no real electronic flash at that time -most of the stuff was done with 500Watt & up bulbs -the way it looks, the print was burned in at the corners in the print darkroom -or the photographer used a baffled reflector for taking the picture- my guess is f16 or 22 on a roughly 31/2 to 4 1/2 inch lens -one of the early wideangles for that film format.but -I am guessing a bit.

• photonut-mi said:

  Love the lady's attire. Don't see many dress like that in the computer industry these days.