PDP8 1965
Digital Equipment Corporation
considered the first successful mini computer
(Source: 1950sunlimited)
Three Screen Television 1961
“In 1961, Chicago TV pioneer Ulises Sanabria tested the market for a three-screen television with a photo spread in LIFE magazine. I suppose the advantage it had over simply owning three individual TVs in different rooms of the house is that it kept the family together – at least, physically. A hi-fi record player is concealed behind the center speaker panel. Apparently, it was inconceivable that two or more members of a family would want to listen to different records at the same time.”
(Source: 1950sunlimited)
Bell Telephone Systems, 1957
ad detail
Underwood Typewriters 1957
Golden Touch technology
Philco Television 1955
Dealer sales catalog
Bell Telephone System
“Because your family lives all over the home.”
Mobiltel Automatic by Automatic Electric 1958
In 1956, the world’s first partly automatic car phone system, Mobile System A (MTA), was launched in Sweden. MTA phones were composed of vacuum tubes and relays, and had a weight of 88.2 pounds
Automatic Electric: (AE) telephone equipment supplier for independent telephone companies, comparable to the Bell System’s Western Electric
How It Works: Computers 1971
The Television 1967
Illustrator; Alain Gree
Wonders of Physics 1969
A Modern Telex c.1970s
illustrator unknown
- A communications system consisting of teletypewriters connected to a telephonic network to send and receive signals.
- A message sent or received by such a system.
Computers at work 1969
Illustrated by Whitecroft Designs
