A Pictorial Manual on Computers, 1957

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This lovely illustrated story appears in the December 1957 issue of Edmund Berkeley's Computers and Automation, which was the world's first semi-popular magazine devoted to the computer.  The article is divided into questioned sections, including:

 "What is 'Operating a Computer' Like?,  showing the "new Computing Center" at the famous Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, the place where most of modern computing in America was born in 1944/5/6. 

[This journal may be purchased from our blog bookstore, here.]

Here's a view of the operator of a Litton-80 Digital Differential Analyzer:

 

And then there's "What is 'Computer Programming' Like?