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What is the significance of this picture? I will answer yes or no questions.
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Gliderman8

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Does it have anything to do with email?
 

Gliderman8

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Direct email to the Kremlin?
 

waltesefalcon

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Is it located at MIT in the 60s?
 

Gliderman8

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Email network for government workers?
 

TR3driver

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Think early history, before there was the Internet as we know it ...
 

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Does it have anything to do with email?

Elliot - how the heck did you guess there's an email connection just ten minutes after Basil posted the photo???

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Gliderman8

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Email number 1?
Kinda like "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
 

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Elliot - how the heck did you guess there's an email connection just ten minutes after Basil posted the photo???

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This pic appears to be an "office setting" and not a "computer room". Usually from that era you see a massive array of computers all lined up, so I figured it had to be something to do with interoffice communication.
 

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That looks like an early PDP machine - possibly the first commercial installation of a PDP machine (email connection would be that UNIX was developed largely on PDP series machines in parallel with the C programming language itself)
 
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That looks like an early PDP machine - possibly the first commercial installation of a PDP machine (email connection would be that UNIX was developed largely on PDP series machines in parallel with the C programming language itself)

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