These photographs were made in the previous year. I had just prepared them for publication on this website a few days before the fire at my institute, but I hadn’t actually posted them by the time of the fire. The ‘main hero’ didn’t suffer from the fire itself, but was heavily flooded with foam, and I decided not to post the photos until it was recovered. Now it’s finally at work again, so I publish the pictures and the text without changes 🙂
In an odd moment, I had a good opportunity to see and to photograph our main computer. Here it is—HP 3000 Series 70, produced in 1985, and still at work:
