John Wilson shared a link.

Admin · 1 June 2019 ·
I really enjoy looking at the vintage photos of the CERN Data Centre. Here's a link that lets you walk through the centre (albeit in a modern environment).
Scroll down the page and look for the heading "Take an immersive trip through the CERN Data Centre" https://home.cern/science/computing/data-centre
The CERN Data Centre | CERN
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The CERN Data Centre is the heart of CERN’s entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure. All services, including email, scientific data management and videoconferencing use equipment based here. A remote extension of the CERN Data Centre is hosted at the Wigner Research Centre ... 77
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Ryokou Itoh Was the result of SPS analyzed here?…🤔
Lee Courtney Some others from the same room in an earlier era, mid-1980s? No photo description available. 2
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John Wilson
My favourite CERN photo. "In preparation for the removal of of the ageing CDC 7600, a 1 megaword CYBER 170/835 and 1 megaword twin processor CYBER 170/875 were installed. The CYBER 835 was moved into production in August replacing the CYBER 720. On the… See more No photo description available. 2
Lee Courtney John Wilson I actually feel fortunate that I was able to see and *experience* the mainframe machine room environment at university and in my early career. I love the "battleship" era of computing - sights, sounds, and even the smell.

Richard Sexton I wrote a Postscript printer formatter so you could just send a file to ut and have it printed like an HP.
I got a note from somebody at CERN saying it crashed their Sun, and they included a code fix.
Hell, it worked on my Amiga. I've always been leery of their anti-matter experiments since then.