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gloriouscow @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

3/19/2026, 6:50:41 PM

Public

#retrocomputing

Anyone recognize the apparatus this woman is using?

I suspect she's at a drafting table, and this is some sort of digitizer based on the corded puck she has in her right hand.

edit: She is doing PCB design work, and timeframe is 1983.

A cut-out inset image of a woman with dark hair and glasses sitting at a drafting table. she has a pencil in her left hand, and is holding some sort of corded device in her right. Between her arms is a rail that runs along the table vertically, and what appears to be some sort of control console with an LCD and keypad below it.

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