Who has dropped quarters in one of these babies and watched the miracle of plastic injection molding produce a hot souvenir for you while you wait?

Chicago's Brookfield Zoo or Museum of Science and Industry host a couple.

Data General Aviion | DG/UX

Didn't expect to be in the majority here lol. I picked Atari out of respect for being THE console that started it all. And also tbh, pure nostalgia.

We used to get the Sears catalog as a kid in the 70s, and when I wasn't looking at women in lingerie there, I would flip to the section selling the Sears rebranded Atari 2600.

They had 3 pages devoted to it and one was just a page of thumbnail screen shots of all the games, in bright colors. I'd spend hours looking at them all. I had a black-and-white pong system at the time, it was all we could afford. But the idea of a game system that was not hardwired to play just one thing was incredibly appealing, it just seemed limitless in a new way that had not existed before.

Been afk lately no way too put it (actually just been gaming at arcades tbh lol)

1969 Midway Sea Raider Arcade Game advertisement

1983

Convair employees working on computers, date unknown

Enikő Katalin Eged (Hungarian, b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary) - Ping Pong & Red Been Mochi, Painting

Paper weight with ECL gate array chip designed for the VAX8800 (code name: "Nautilus") embedded within.

I was given this when I started at DEC as swag since this product had just shipped. In a lot of ways this machine was the apex of DECs attempts to capture mainframe market share from IBM.

Projects that followed were all either cancelled or should have been, (looking at you, VAX9000)

AMIGA 500

I love how the pencil thing is official procedure.

A computer operator changing a removable disk pack on an IBM System/360, c. late 1960s/early 1970s.

If you weren't around for the mid 20th, you missed all the ashtrays lol. They were literally everywhere. Even built into our radar air defense computers, like this circa 1960 SAGE console with both lighter and ashtray..

Walt Disney Ashtray Set - 1940s

IBM 5100 computer. Wilde Lake High School, Columbia, MD (1977)