1962 · Transistor Computer Control Desk · Work 1171 of 1,871
The computer room of a military signals research station on the south coast of England on an early autumn morning, pale sea light through a wide window, on a grey metal table a flat cream-white control desk seventy centimetres wide with a raised back panel, its grey sloping face with four rows of small black push buttons, a red button starting each row, at the right round brass rings glowing softly, a plain dark grey front strip, a hand in a plain navy-blue serge sleeve pressing a black button, beside it a teleprinter with perforated paper tape falling in loops to the floor, pale double cabinets on slender legs behind.