Post #2419281
2022-12-03 13:32 UTC
@ole@chaos.social what did they use it for? certainly they didn't have any GUIs to use it with
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@m0xee@social.librem.one 2022-12-03 13:58
@mjdxp@snowdin.town I didn't even know that Telefunken had mainframes. I know them for like… headphones and television equipment. @ole@chaos.social
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@ole@chaos.social 2022-12-04 18:26
@mjdxp@snowdin.town According to the podcast, Telefunken had a contract to design new workstations for German air traffic controllers. Apparently at the time the Americans already used trackballs to select blips on a radar screen, and the Germans wanted something similar.