January Caption Contest

All are encouraged to enter captions to a photo in the Archives. The contest winner (as chosen by those sagacious heads at Caption Contest Central) will receive a Fabulous Prize.

He’s trying to replace us all with a mechanical brain! He’s under special assignment to Azae to see if EMERAC can be adapted to this department. That means the end of us all!
Peg Costello, played by Joan Blondell, Desk Set (1957), directed by Walter Lang, written by Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, and William Marchant

AI, ai, ai! Americans have been fascinated by their machines since way back. The only difference between then and now is that you can carry the enthralling object in your hand all the time. Take a gander at this month’s Caption Contest photo to see the size of a computer in the 1960s. While you’re at it, compose a caption for this vintage campus photo and you may win our inaugural Caption Contest for 2025!

 

Black and white photograph. An older woman with white curly hair and glasses wearing a dress with a spiral pattern is facing away from the camera at a 45 degree angle. She is facing a computer from the 1960s, labeled “IBM 7040.” It is roughly 2 and ½ feet tall and 1 foot wide, with dials, switches, and buttons for the interface. Her left arm is raised, interacting with the machine. On the ame desk that the computer sits on is a printer, rotary telephone, and clipboard. In the background are other vintage data storage devices, with tape memory systems.

 

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