Office workers 50 years ago

In 1960 Lawrence lakh, a member of the largest telecommunications corporation legendary Bell Labs, took a picture of my colleagues in the workplace. Now, 50 years later, we can see how the look, office workers and office life in those days, and compared with the modern offices.




Mini computer then Honeywell DDP-516. Used to connect computer terminals tens of modem line 50KB. Today this funktsiyayu perform network switches (zhargy. Switch)



Desk extravagant production manager



And here terminals





PC, polka-dot dress, handbag



The head of the computer department with an oscilloscope





Super computer IBM. This "monster" had 1 MB RAM, 648 MB hard disk space and cost millions of dollars!



Tomfoolery with a super-computer IBM



Apparently, the dress code in the corporation Bell Labs was absent. Dressed "perky»



Room design especially nobody bothered. Everywhere white walls and tables of the same type in the workplace. but people are hilarious. Programmer





The office was decorated on its own. The author and his work on the wall



Library tape



Tea break. After 50 years in a similar situation a rest in many institutes of RAS



The demonstration room. There was carried out the presentation, slide show with the projector



Operators computers



New to heat the terminal computer



Source: visualhistory.livejournal.com