> On Jun 24, 2021, at 1:37 PM, Mike Begley via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> A friend of mine collects old photos, and sent me a link to this set he just
> recovered from film. He doesn't know much about the provenance, but it might
> be interesting to figure out what we can about them.
>
> The link is here:
>
> https://www.espressobuzz.net/Found/GeorgeClark/GraphicsLab/
>
> The film roll was dated June 1968, which was a month before I was born.
>
> The most interesting (to me) is the photo of the Adage Graphics Terminal.
> I'd never heard of the company before, but it looks like they were one of the
> many tech companies that sprang up in the MIT & Harvard orbit in the 60s and
> 70s. There's a small amount of info about the company on Wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adage,_Inc.
>
> Also in the same photo, to the right of the terminal is a silver box that
> might be an early joystick. It's hard to say.
Seems like it. Amusing to see what was standard equipment in computer rooms
early on: an ash tray.
> ...
> Other recognizable hardware are a couple of ASR33 teletypes (one of which was
> rebadged as Adage),
The first two pictures seem to show an ASR35, the heavy duty terminal, while
the third one is indeed an ASR33.
paul
