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hi Laine,<br>
I can't identify the exact machine, but it's likely that the photo
is of a plug board used to program accounting machines like the IBM
402. These machines would have been in use in the late 1940's or
1950's, and would have been used to read punched cards and print
business records.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_402">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_402</a><br>
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/guy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/28/2015 11:25 AM, Laine Nooney
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">To my favorite cabal of computer historians:
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<div>I've been contacted by a colleague of a colleague who is an
art historian writing on the work of<span
style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"> </span><span
style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">Chilean artist <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez">Guillermo
Núñez</a>. In the late 1970s, </span>Núñez produced a
seriograph (v. similar to a silkscreen) partially depicting
what my colleague believes is a piece of computer technology
in it. She is trying to identify what the image is of so she
can write about it with a bit more specificity. </div>
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<div>I'm providing a dropbox links to two image files, on of the
full seriograph and one that is a close up.</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/86iutdvvbkz2814/AAB8IdZ5IMGcK_h4gAiAGG2la?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/86iutdvvbkz2814/AAB8IdZ5IMGcK_h4gAiAGG2la?dl=0</a></div>
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<div>CONTEXT:</div>
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<div>Núñez told the art historian that he<span
style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"> used a photo that
he had found of "one of those computers that takes up a
whole room," then xeroxed it, then superimposed it over his
own photograph and used those images to make the serigraph
stencil. Thus the image is not very detailed, as its been
processed through several kinds of media. It is also like
that </span>Núñez put<span
style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"> put some pieces
of string on the canvas when he printed, and then removed
them, so in addition to any wires that may be in the
original image, there are also imprints that resemble wires
as well.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">Núñez made
the prints in 1977-1979, so the images are from that time
period or earlier. He sourced </span><span
style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">all kinds of
images from different countries, usually from magazines and
old books. There is no reason to believe the image or the
technology represented in Chilean or South American. </span><span
style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">Obviously,
the thing looks like a breadboard. What I don't know is how
common place something like this would have been in
mid-century computer equipment, what its function might have
been, etc. This is all well beyond my area of expertise.
There's a bit of writing you can read on the board in the
second image. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">I welcome
any comments or thoughts as replies to the group or
individually, and I'll pass them on.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">Best,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">Laine</span></div>
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