Artifact Details

Title

Operator at a Unimatic reservation terminal

Catalog Number

102664701

Type

Still Image

Description

This is a black and white image of a woman, seated on the left, typing into a airline computer reservation system. She is looking at the screen. The background is white. J. Presper Eckert describes this computer terminal in his speech "Industry Science & Technology in Last Third of the Century, 1966" as "...a newly designed input station for an airline reservations system. It contains a keyboard, better memory and may other items." (p. 10-11). Written on verso side is "Fig. 11". Written in pencil on small white strip included with binder is "1337".

Date

1970 ca.

Identifying Numbers

Other number Fig 11
Other number OOC 1337

Dimensions

8 1/4 x 11 in.

Format

Photographic print

Copyright Holder

Sperry Rand Corporation

Category

Publicity photograph; Identification photograph

Subject

Eckert, J. Presper, Jr.; Reservation; Airline; Real time

Collection Title

J. Pres Eckert papers

Series Title

Photographs

Credit

Purchase of the Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X3115.2005