Just a Japanese lady standing awkwardly with a mainframe

Fujitsu GS 8900 mainframe computer, Japan, 1997.

… and another Japanese lady standing awkwardly with a mobile phone.

NTT Docomo i-mode mobile telephone, Japan, 2001.

 

The white room

Hitachi supercomputer MP 6000, Japan, 1997.

Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 with consoles and magnetic tape units, USA, 1970. And do my eyes deceive me, or is the obligatory foxy female operator a foxy African-American woman? Progress! Well, sort of, because she still has to be foxy or GTFO of shot…