Pictures.

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We did documents, now let's do pictures.

Don't just link to original, because they can go away. Upload it to the message.

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From https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/stl-42fa883591ff8/

Title: Rand employee Nelson G. Lucas at JOSS console
Date: 1958 ca
Description: The Johnniac computer was used in a number of groundbreaking studies, many related to artificial intelligence. For example, in the late 1950s, Carnegie Mellon University researchers Allen Newell, Herbert Simon and Cliff Shaw at the Rand Corporation, wrote the NSS chess program to run on the Johnniac.

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From http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/johnniac.html, with lots of good info!

This is JOHNNIAC, but let's not be picky.

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From https://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=%2B%22JOSS+%28Electronic+computer+system%29%22

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Not downloadable (?), but nice photo of JOHNNIAC now at CHM.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/johnniac-computer-volker-steger.html

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Links to Bitsavers may be ok?

[PashPaw]

They're okay as long as Bitsavers doesn't go down again.

[PashPaw]

Also, any documentation should have a local copy especially as this is tentatively okayed.

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Not downloadable (?), but nice photo of JOHNNIAC now at CHM.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/johnniac-computer-volker-steger.html

Of course it can be downloaded for backup reasons! :)

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From http://hopl.info/showlanguage.prx?exp=200 I found these two images:

Charles L. Baker at the JOSS Console:

The JOSS console:

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From https://engineeringhistory.tumblr.com/post/79164574750/the-johnniac-an-early-rand-computer-based-on-john a better but b/w picture of the JOHNNIAC:

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More JOSS console from https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/94/375

Title: JOHNNIAC user console
Date: 1964
Description: JOSS, the JOHNNIAC Open-Shop System, allowed up to 10 users to access the machine interactively using a simplified programming language. It was implemented by Cliff Shaw as a “helpful assistant” for mathematicians.

[PashPaw]

And then there's this humdinger:

(From: http://www.glennsmuseum.com/ibm/ibm.html)

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And then there's this humdinger:

@PashPaw Where did that photo go?

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A photo from a CHM visit

[larsbrinkhoff]

It was archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20160507073115/http://www.glennsmuseum.com/ibm/pics/joss_front_cu.jpg

Better make a copy.