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Does it have anything to do with email?
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Yes.
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Direct email to the Kremlin?
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Is it located at MIT in the 60s?
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Email network for government workers?
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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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Email number 1?
Kinda like "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
Kinda like "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
TR3driver
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Basil didn't answer, so I will : No, but you're getting warmer!
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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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Nope
YakkoWarner
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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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Warmer
YakkoWarner
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OK I think I have it - there are actually TWO PDP machines visible. The first 2 machines to be networked to each other.
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