If you look closely you will see he is sitting on top of the tape drives not standing behind them.
Therefor, they must be 3420's I cant think of any other tape drives with enough flat room on the top
so you can sit on them. It is warm up there. :)
That is a 3270 terminal on a 3274 control unit. Note the size of the slot for the floppy disk. The
3274 and the 3174 looked somewhat alike on the outside.
At the edge of the picture is one of the rack mainframes. I cant tell which one.
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Steve--I thought that your posting about the old equipment would cause
the list to be swamped with old memories. The picture is kind of
misleading. I recognized the tape drives as machines that looked like
3420 drives except at first glance, I thought that the person was
standing behind them and they must be something really short such as the
3410 or 3415 or whatever the number. They were also known as "creepy
crawlers". The terminal is a 3270, but I think that what looks like a
control unit that it's sitting on is a 3174 rather than a 3274 which
would be a more likely control unit for a 3270.
Jim
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For those of you who might be in the Lafayette, Indiana area this
weekend.
Vintage Computer Festival.
How many of you can identify the equipment in the picture without
reading the article?
http://jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/NEWS/707120334/1152/NEWS
Steve G.
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