Author Topic: Some antiques (Read 1604 times)

armenws · « **on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 16:42:15 »

from the museum of arts and sciences in paris

ch_123 · « **Reply #1 on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 17:05:00 »

I think the second one is an IBM Model A.

British · « **Reply #2 on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 17:06:09 »

Did you pop some caps and figured the switches out ?

chimera15 · « **Reply #3 on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 17:08:20 »

Awesome, love the pushbutton typewriter. Could you imagine offices being filled with those things if those patents had taken off? lol

armenws · « **Reply #4 on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 19:33:55 »

lol pop some caps and check switches

armenws · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 19:36:13 »

4,5 and maybe 6 are cryptography devices I think. I had literally 15 minutes to look through the entire video game history exhibit (which was awesome) and the museum before catching a plane. Would have liked to bring more details but there we are. My favorite is the last one - it's quite small, about 7 or 8 inches across.

chimera15 · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 09 September 2010, 21:22:02 »

Quote from: armenws;221443

4,5 and maybe 6 are cryptography devices I think. I had literally 15 minutes to look through the entire video game history exhibit (which was awesome) and the museum before catching a plane. Would have liked to bring more details but there we are. My favorite is the last one - it's quite small, about 7 or 8 inches across.

I believe 4 5 and 6, especially 4 is actually an early typewriter design before qwerty became the norm, although I could be wrong. There are certainly similar devices that look like that that were early typewriters. They look like porcupines.

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Author Topic: Some antiques (Read 1604 times)