Valuable interior photos of Bell Labs from 1969 to 1970, involved in winning the seven Nobel Prizes
Valuable photos of what the Bell Labs data center, known for having been involved in winning the Nobel Prize in Physics seven times, were published online from 1969 to 1970. ..
1969 & 70 --Bell Labs
The photo is published by Larry Rackham , who was the operations manager at the Bell Labs data center in Oakland, California at the time. As a business, he seems to have created a state-of-the-art database search system.
Mr. Rackham himself
'It wasn't a whiteboard yet,' said Rackham, who used a blackboard.
A female operator sitting in front of an IBM mainframe. The data center at that time was set up on the first floor and in the basement, not only for security reasons, but also for supporting the weight of the mainframe. The console is an
And when it comes to data storage, magnetic tape. This shelf is equivalent to a rack of modern SSDs and HDDs. Although there was an 'external HDD' at that time, the capacity was 29MB.
This is Honeywell's 16-bit minicomputer 'DDP-516'. The successor to this is the H-316 .
The tape, which was the storage at the time, had to be replaced by the operator, so it's easy to see that women were supporting the work in order to use the computer satisfactorily.
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