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anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Don Shepherd - 11-30-2011 The pictures came from two different HP manuals. Notice that the captions are, essentially, the same.
The good old days.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Martin Pinckney - 11-30-2011 Quote:Of miniskirts... Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - M. Joury - 11-30-2011 Wasn't touching that one :-)
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - bill platt - 11-30-2011 She looks like she is putting money into a coffee vending machine--you know, the kind that dates from the same period--the cup drops down, there is a whirring inside the box, and coffee flows down, then cream.
Edited: 30 Nov 2011, 12:00 p.m.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - bill platt - 11-30-2011 "Conversational BASIC language" haha
For i=1 to 10...
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Ethan Conner - 11-30-2011 BIG hair. lol
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Don Shepherd - 11-30-2011 Quote:
Or, more likely, the cup does NOT drop down, but the coffee still flows (down the drain), and you are left for nothing to show for your quarter!
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Paul Berger (Canada) - 11-30-2011 Nice sophisticated ASR33 teletype I/O devices. In my early days in field service one of my customers had a little HP mini that ran some data entry terminals at a remote location and logged the data on spools of paper tape that they would then use to transfer the data to the mainframe. The console was an ASR33 which would chatter away endlessly. My employer also used them for I/O on a customer terminal system for a large hotel chain, but I never had to service any of them. I did however service lots of terminal equipment that used a modified selectric typewriter as the I/O device.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Mike Morrow - 11-30-2011 Quote:
And bleached blondes.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - megarat - 11-30-2011 ... and beehive hairdos.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Jim Yohe - 12-01-2011 And four footed/legged chairs that today have five for better stability.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Achim (Germany) - 12-01-2011 Has anyone ever seen those female operators? The ops I knew had bald patches instead of beehive hairdos and no miniskirts.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Mike Morrow - 12-01-2011 Quote:
The five-footed chairs that have become universal have only one main objective...to make it impossible to lean backward and potentially cause a fall when the legs slip out. It's just one of those office funny moments that are now gone, in the interest of safety.
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - bill platt - 12-01-2011 Sex Sells :-)
Re: anyone recognize these pics from old HP manuals? - Paul Berger (Canada) - 12-01-2011 Having spent a few years as a field service tech I assure you that computer rooms with very attractive operators do exist.
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