Wow, daytraders in the 1950s

Tape reading using a early 1950s workstation for electronic trading.

 

You sure? They used to use tape with punched holes in it to load programs and processes back then too...

Is there more info on this pic? A source?

 

Uhh not quite.. http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/11/21/re-boot-for-worlds-oldest-computer/

 

Right click on picture and click save as, and the file name you get to save in your computer is this:

witch-computer-restoration-uk-story-top

OP - Are you trying to joke everyone on Thanksgiving day!!! LOL.

 

Wow, and the arrangement of the tubes appears to indicate use of Fib levels, too!

 

This appears to be an attempt at humor.

 

...it "doubled" as a furnace during the winter months.

 

You sure? They used to use tape with punched holes in it to load programs and processes back then too...

Is there more info on this pic? A source?
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I started using computers in 1957 and they used ibm punched cards to program.

 

Speaking of nostalgia, I remember being pissed about a 14.4K modem coming out just weeks after I had spent something like $400 on a 9.6K modem.

Only a few years later I would be elated if I found myself in a hotel with phone lines "clean" enough to achieve a 28K connection.

 

cmon, how about those 2400 modems and prodigy...had to be like 1991 or so. too bad (for me) i never could foresee what was yet to come. still now, lol