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the other thing is it takes up alot of space, and the ones have been on ebay for a long time , so i dont see a collector buying it, the 2 ounces of gold was more valuable than the machine, but while breaking it down, i did find a blown cap which may have been the reason for its demise
very complex ...

The varian data machine was pulled from a scrap pile. it was completely destroyed, there is more on ebay, was for some kind of electron microscope

this is why im glad i came here, i just dont know enough about this time in history, i just took apart a varian data machine for gold scrap and it was mind blowing the amount of engineering that went into it/
Im going to assume this had some influence of missile programming, i have alot of early ...

but its a start, i would place this as an early model, so 54 to 56 im guessing , ill see if i can dig up more, but i have never seen anything like this

im curious if the first keyboard is binary like so or qwerty

i made that for you, if it doesnt work its a bug on your end

what a pain in the a55 lol, let me know if that last one works, its a worthy sight, i promise

oh, thats dumb, looks good on my end, heres the link http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/nic ... Zw==/?ref=

heres a better quality pic

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/nick36o/20171224_185957.jpg

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I have something that may take the position of the first computer keyboard, it is a Binary Coding Keyboard, #19 of god knows how many produced, and still in existence.

Its Military Property, USAF tagged. so predates civilian application
its simply called a Soroban Coding Keyboard Model is FK-104zd ...