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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 “notch” command to route a line around an obstruction… I don’t 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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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 Complete speculation here, but could the thing in her right hand be as simple as a spool of rubylith, tape, or a template? I think at that point in time it was still fairly common to lay out pcbs on paper with graphic artists' tools and then photoreduce them for manufacturing. (No idea what the boxy thing lower down might be though.)
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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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@Edent you were on my human.json before you created your own, innit!
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