With the bulk of the worlds technology press currently being hypnotized by Apple’ mighty marketing masters in San Francisco, let’s take a moment to reflect on the incredible design contrasts and similarities of computers from our technological past. Photographer Mark Richards has compiled a book of beautifully haunting vintage computer images from a time when form took a distant back seat to function. From refrigerator sized IBM tape memory drives(circa 1965) to the original Apple 1 wooden computer, see how far we have come in such a small amount of time.

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