21 Sep
2015
21 Sep
'15
6:54 p.m.
This is sort-of off topic, but not entirely...
I've seen a fair amount of furniture like in the following picture:
http://dooki.com/supercomputers/ibm/ibm.s390g4.gif
It looks well-made, industrial, and vintage (sort of). Anyone know who makes such
things?
Did IBM have a go-to desk manufacturer for their stuff, or just whatever the customer
provided?
Thanks!
-Ben
21 Sep
21 Sep
7:21 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
This is sort-of off topic, but not entirely...
I've seen a fair amount of furniture like in the following picture:
http://dooki.com/supercomputers/ibm/ibm.s390g4.gif
It looks well-made, industrial, and vintage (sort of). Anyone know who makes such
things?
Don't know if IBM used them, but Wright-Line was huge in datacenter
equipment, both furniture and storage.
DEC had some of their own (I have a catalog somewhere....) that
matched their corporate rack cabinets (brown/beige scheme.)
7:38 p.m.
On 09/21/2015 04:21 PM, Jason T wrote:
Don't know if IBM used them, but Wright-Line was huge in datacenter
equipment, both furniture and storage.
DEC had some of their own (I have a catalog somewhere....) that
matched their corporate rack cabinets (brown/beige scheme.)
Acco was (and is) very big in data center/office computer furniture as
well. I use a couple of Acco workstations that I picked up used about
25 years ago. Welded beefy things (had no problem holding a Daisy 20"
monitor). Desk is on a chain and threaded-rod up-down adjustment;
keyboard shelf is adjustable WRT angle and height. I don't think that
I could ever go back to using a plain old office desk again.
Fortunately, I don't have to.
--Chuck
8 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Acco was (and is) very big in data center/office
computer furniture as well.
I use a couple of Acco workstations that I picked up used about 25 years
ago. Welded beefy things (had no problem holding a Daisy 20" monitor).
Desk is on a chain and threaded-rod up-down adjustment; keyboard shelf is
adjustable WRT angle and height. I don't think that I could ever go back
to using a plain old office desk again.
Ah yeah, I've seen them around as well. The threaded-rod is a
blessing to civilization.
Although not indicative of any trend, I'm going to share my
Bell/Teletype table because it's cool:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102190732096693814506/Model45TeletypeTable?nor…
I assume Teletype actually made it, but who knows. I was told by the
seller that it was installed by Bell as part of a turnkey "phone room"
in a city building. complete with your own human attendant.
j
7:26 p.m.
This is sort-of off topic, but not entirely...
I've seen a fair amount of furniture like in the following picture:
http://dooki.com/supercomputers/ibm/ibm.s390g4.gif
It looks well-made, industrial, and vintage (sort of). Anyone know who
makes such things?
Did IBM have a go-to desk manufacturer for their stuff, or just
whatever the customer provided?
Ben,
Funny you should ask. I just made a minis post about it here:
http://megacube.classiccmp.org/Synergetix/Synergetix.html
The web page is very preliminary but should give you an idea....
-Ali
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