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Googling for "drafting table digitizer" revealed to me that the drafting table is not actually even dead.
And here I was drooling over CintiQs...
I think I unironically want this thing.
@gloriouscow $12,000
Cupholder is a paid extra.
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It may not be a digitizer - closest i've gotten is this Nestler Florett digital drafting machine. You can see this is a more modern version, but it shows that such things did have control boxes with an LCD and controls on them.
@gloriouscow how does a digital drafting machine differ? Does it record as you instead of all at once later?
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@gloriouscow how does a digital drafting machine differ? Does it record as you instead of all at once later?
@falken In this case I don't think it actually records anything - some version may have a motor to move the two primary axis and have a digital readout of the angle you have set with the square.
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Anyone recognize the apparatus this woman is using?
I suspect she's at a drafting table, and this is some sort of digitizer based on the corded puck she has in her right hand.
edit: She is doing PCB design work, and timeframe is 1983.
@gloriouscow
I cannot pin down an exact one because I think these predate the kind of commercial coverage that is better search indexed.But I think this may be a Calma GDS-II system digitizer with some later addition or a calculator sitting on the rail.
But this will be a 70s device that was in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" business world for sure.
Source: https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/calma/Calma_CARDS_Sales_Presentation.pdf
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@gloriouscow
I cannot pin down an exact one because I think these predate the kind of commercial coverage that is better search indexed.But I think this may be a Calma GDS-II system digitizer with some later addition or a calculator sitting on the rail.
But this will be a 70s device that was in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" business world for sure.
Source: https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/calma/Calma_CARDS_Sales_Presentation.pdf
i sort of find it slightly unlikely reading up on the system because I think the company that employed the person pictured would have had trouble paying for a used Toyota
but damn this terminal is some gorgeous retro-futurism
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@gloriouscow
I cannot pin down an exact one because I think these predate the kind of commercial coverage that is better search indexed.But I think this may be a Calma GDS-II system digitizer with some later addition or a calculator sitting on the rail.
But this will be a 70s device that was in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" business world for sure.
Source: https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/calma/Calma_CARDS_Sales_Presentation.pdf
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i sort of find it slightly unlikely reading up on the system because I think the company that employed the person pictured would have had trouble paying for a used Toyota
but damn this terminal is some gorgeous retro-futurism
@gloriouscow I was not prepared for how incredible it would be when I went reading into it.
10/10 would pay too much for one on craigslist that I would never be able to make work.
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@gloriouscow I was not prepared for how incredible it would be when I went reading into it.
10/10 would pay too much for one on craigslist that I would never be able to make work.
oh yeah, Seequa definitely did not have this lol
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@DeltaWye @TechTangents "they don't build 'em like that anymore"
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oh yeah, Seequa definitely did not have this lol
@TechTangents If I had a dollar for every time I had to physically check if two vias were so close as to be intentionally connected I'd .. .well I could buy lunch at Arby's
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@gloriouscow I was not prepared for how incredible it would be when I went reading into it.
10/10 would pay too much for one on craigslist that I would never be able to make work.
@TechTangents @gloriouscow 10/10 would watch that series
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@DeltaWye @TechTangents "they don't build 'em like that anymore"
@colinstu @TechTangents That βnotchβ command to route a line around an obstructionβ¦ I donβt think AutoCAD has that! I wish it did!
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@TechTangents If I had a dollar for every time I had to physically check if two vias were so close as to be intentionally connected I'd .. .well I could buy lunch at Arby's
curse you for nerd sniping me with this thing which I now have to know everything about
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Anyone recognize the apparatus this woman is using?
I suspect she's at a drafting table, and this is some sort of digitizer based on the corded puck she has in her right hand.
edit: She is doing PCB design work, and timeframe is 1983.
@gloriouscow I do remember our uni had a ~A0 sized digitizer - but I don't remember much detail; I guess that was early 90's when I saw that.
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Anyone recognize the apparatus this woman is using?
I suspect she's at a drafting table, and this is some sort of digitizer based on the corded puck she has in her right hand.
edit: She is doing PCB design work, and timeframe is 1983.
@gloriouscow Looks like Apollo lead programmer Margaret Hamilton at a drafting table.
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@gloriouscow Looks like Apollo lead programmer Margaret Hamilton at a drafting table.
@aachrisg Her name is Mary Duffy and she was an employee of Seequa Computer.
https://archive.org/details/inside-seequa-vol-1-no-3/page/n1/mode/2up
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@gloriouscow
I cannot pin down an exact one because I think these predate the kind of commercial coverage that is better search indexed.But I think this may be a Calma GDS-II system digitizer with some later addition or a calculator sitting on the rail.
But this will be a 70s device that was in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" business world for sure.
Source: https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/calma/Calma_CARDS_Sales_Presentation.pdf
@TechTangents @gloriouscow We have one of those Eclipses in our museum collection:
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Googling for "drafting table digitizer" revealed to me that the drafting table is not actually even dead.
And here I was drooling over CintiQs...
I think I unironically want this thing.
@gloriouscow oh my shit.
This is a dream machine for me.
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@aachrisg Her name is Mary Duffy and she was an employee of Seequa Computer.
https://archive.org/details/inside-seequa-vol-1-no-3/page/n1/mode/2up
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@aachrisg looking at the photo on her Wiki article, it wasn't a bad guess!
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This is an image from an article that was retweeted years ago. It was about tech fashion, I think. I have never seen these in the wild but I wish they were, cos I want them.
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