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Check it out, Donna Reed led a secret double life -- as a plunger-wielding sysadmin! Here's a series of "found" '60s-era snapshots from a data center in Los Angeles. They were accidentally discovered in a closet at that same facility, decades later, by a Boing Boing reader who asks to remain anonymous. They're like a time capsule from our mainframe ancestors.
Images (med = 640 x 480, large = 1280 x 960)
(a) Plunger power! Not exactly Hattori Hanzo Steel, but it'll do for slaying server-room foes that hide under floor tiles: med / large.
(b) Guy holding up brochure that reads L.I.F.E., Life Insurance Forecast Electronically: med / large
(c) Man seated at workstation: med / large
(d) Groundbreaking ceremony? med / large
Boing Boing pal Sean Bonner says, "I love these things, and love thinking that my phone probably holds more data than that entire room."