Share your favorites on Show & Tell

smoked acrylic plastic DIGITAL computer printer shelf

In Advertising > Show & Tell and Electronics > Computers > Show & Tell.
All items12384 of 244560USS Tennessee Shell CasingGlass cat
5
Love it
0
Like it

vcalvcal loves this.
fortapachefortapache loves this.
vetraio50vetraio50 loves this.
Vynil33rpmVynil33rpm loves this.
Alfie21Alfie21 loves this.
See 3 more
Add to collection

    Please create an account, or Log in here

    If you don't have an account, create one here.


    Create a Show & TellReport as inappropriate


    Posted 2 years ago

    AnythingOb…
    (1778 items)

    Not the now generic "digital" word's meaning as popularly applied to generally about every otherwise ordinary thing we all havta deal with on a daily basis whether its an actual computer, phone, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, motor vehicle, or any other d*mned modern machine which (IMHO) was probably generally easier to deal with and actually *use*, before society seems to have decided that they all should be 'internet controlled'... <headdesk>

    Instead, for this thing, the DIGITAL name/logo on its front is that of a (kinda early but also kinda really good at the time?) maker of actual computers and related equipment mostly intended for tasks like sending rockets into outer space (and getting them back intact) or otherwise stuff very much unlike and again maybe slightly more important (once more, to society in general) than "digital" vacuum cleaner bag monitors that send instant "digital" warning alerts to your phone. Gawd help any of us that might have to suffer the horrible consequences of a too-ful suk-o-lux that is...OH, the potential life-altering traumas now to be "digitally" avoided...?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation

    It is otherwise a folded over sheet of 'brown smoked color' clear acrylic plastic with a couple spacer posts on each of its open end's corners holding them together, and since the closed side of it has the logo on it, I'll guess that was intended to be its front, which could easily suggest it was made as something to hold up an early computer printer, probably one of those also now hopelessly obsolete ones that used the kind of paper that came in a boxful of sheets all actually connected together end to end with perforations between them and tear-off strips of larger round holes along both sides of their whole lengths which those machines needed to actually drag the paper into/thru them.

    That's about all I know (read: guess) about it right now as far as its history goes. Also about as much as whatever I might (or not) ever end up *doing* with it, any potential proper inspiration for that hasn't come to me yet though I am happy at how rather well it cleaned up with a healthy dose of windex and whatnot...it came to me from a basement where it'd been summarily tossed aside in a corner in the dirt, looking very much like one would expect of such a thing found in such a place. .

    logo
    Advertising
    See all
    Chevrolet Garage 40
    Chevrolet Garage 40" Double Sided S...
    $106
    Vtg Original 1950s-60s Fallout Shelter Sign Department of Defense New old Stock
    Vtg Original 1950s-60s Fallout Shel...
    $32
    100 Vintage Soda Bottle Caps Pop (((NO REPEATS))) Crimped/Used, Zero Defects
    100 Vintage Soda Bottle Caps Pop ((...
    $15
    Antique Vintage Old Style Sinclair Oils Service Station Sign
    Antique Vintage Old Style Sinclair ...
    $165
    logo
    Chevrolet Garage 40
    Chevrolet Garage 40" Double Sided S...
    $106
    See all

    Comments

    1. Vynil33rpm Vynil33rpm, 2 years ago
      Yes the Red thing ,is an early ,red photographic developing light
      inside the ceramic BoPeep with lamb

    Want to post a comment?

    Create an account or login in order to post a comment.