Backgrounds: Computers
Computers are a constant source of frustration for us all. That’s why Buster and the Computer Bug were introduced earlier this year. I drew dozens of computers both old and new for that story line. Here are just a few of the computers that showed up in last Summers computer story.
This is an old tape drive. To be exact, it is an IBM 702. I think that there are still one or two of these things operating where I used to work!
Here is a computer that PROBABLY doesn’t need an introduction because it is still the butt of many jokes. The IBM PCjr with the delightful “chicklet” keyboard.
This is an IBM mainframe computer sometime around 1970 before Buster, the computer gremlin, found it:
As you can see, I wasn’t quite sure where I was going to crop the final image.
And here is that same mainframe AFTER Buster worked his gremlin magic:
4 thoughts on “Pesky Gremlins Comic Backgrounds: Computers”
RG2Cents
Nice to see the “behind the panels” scenes!
H Stacy
Buster is most appreciative of your comment!
And I thank you, too!
Binky
These are the machines I still think of when I hear “mainframe computer”. Amazing machines fro their time.
H Stacy
That is also what comes to my mind when I hear “mainframe computer”, too. Although, I know that they don’t look like that anymore.