Here’s a set of some pretty interesting photos. They were part of a roll of film that my father left me before he died in 2005. It was part of a PR job he was doing for the opening of a mall. Some of the better ones:
Nonplussed Man With Large Lithograph of Castle Behind Him, a Large Phone, 2 Desk Pens, and a Huge Ashtray with Cigar
Man With Degree From Wayne State University and at Least Two Other Certificates Talks on the Phone While Staring into the Distance
Elaine Brunk Receives Yet Another File
And the best one ever:
Amazing Photo With Minicomputer Posters
This image is a treasure trove.
The *poster on wall on left* is for a PDP-11/23, which was one of “a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11. Specifically, it is the PDP-11/23, “a second generation of LSI (F-11). Early units supported only 248 kB of memory.”
The four fanned pennants behind the seated guy’s head seems to be a motivational giveaway for a Digital Equipment Corporation conference held on August 15, 1979. I can’t find any info on this.
The item on the far right is a “coming soon” poster for “A New Standard of Excellence in 16-Bit Minicomputer Architecture”– the PDP 11/44. From Wikipedia:
“PDP-11/44 — Replacement for the 11/45 and 11/70 that supported optional cache memory and floating-point processor, and included a sophisticated serial console interface and support for 4 MB of physical memory. The design team was managed by John Sofio. This was the last PDP-11 processor to be constructed using discrete logic gates; later models were all microprogrammed.”
Lastly, the book underneath the plans they’re reviewing is “The Silva Mind Control Method”
www.amazon.com/Silva-Mind-Control-Method/dp/0671739891/