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Check out this awesome image @LuigiThirty found (in a GE Newsletter!) of the back-end system that ran the Epcot WorldKey information kiosks.
Banks and banks of laserdisc players... beautiful.
https://twitter.com/LuigiThirty/status/1184001076024008707 …pic.twitter.com/igHy220Eh8
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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THIS TWEET WAS MADE FOR ME
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I was just thinking "I bet Technology Connections is gonna love this" when I tweeted that.
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Foone would be envious of having enough laserdisc players to recreate that, and also of having enough space to set them all up in!
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to be honest I'm not far off having enough to do that. mind you most of mine aren't the fancy industrial kind with direct-drive motors and serial port control, so they wouldn't work for it anyway.
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My worlds are colliding here.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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And powered by four computers, a VAX-11/780 named "Donald", and three MicroVax 3100 (possibly Model 20) named "Huey, Dewey and Louie".
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This was a separate system developed by Western Electric that ran on 3B systems. They were trying to sell them as minicomputers at the time.
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FWIW, I don't know what that's a picture of, but it's not the EPCOT Worldkey installation. All the racks in EPCOT Central were trimmed in Persimmon Red to match the corporate colors of Sperry-Univac, the sponser. You can see the actual racks in this still from the movie DARYL:pic.twitter.com/6liF1VASdq
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Hmmmmmmmm! The newsletter (from late 1983) claims it's a photo of the laserdisc racks...
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