On 19 Mar 2007 at 11:17, Billy Pettit wrote:
It is hard to tell much. The tape drives are
definitely 606 or 607's. I'd
lean toward 606 because the lights for density seem to be the 200/556
configuration, not the 200/556/800 set.
Yeah, you're obviously better at seeing through blurs than I am!
The cabinets in front are unusual. The one on the
right has a window in the
top (see the shiny plate) and that was only done for printers. The one on
the left also has two rows of lights, instead of one and that was only done
on early printers (non-train) and one of the early disk file controllers.
I'd concluded in a later message that we were probably looking at
501's in the foreground, since on the right-side one, you can see the
top glass.
But I guess neither of us wins Richard's contest! I figure that
you'd almost have to know the room itself or someone in the photo to
be able to figure out what the system was.
Cheers,
Chuck