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jaybol:

sheigh:

How far we’ve come. (Bell Labs circa 1997.) Source: Los Angeles Times

ex-genius:

I was going through this awesome set of pictures from 1960’s bell labs I found on reddit. and I stumbled across this.

I actually had one of those things when I was a kid. I found it at a garage sale and offered the dude $2 for it. Thing took over 80 vacuum tubes and smoked every time I turned it on, but god damn did it scope those oscillations good. Having no practical use for the device, I hooked it up to my stereo and used it as the worlds worst iTunes visualizer.