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NO MODEL DOWNLOAD. Be sure to read the description for my new Blasts from My Past Gallery before commenting. Here's the link if you haven't visited my Gallery section lately; click on Read More for the full description:

www.deviantart.com/digitalexpl…

In June of 2015 I featured retro computer and video game systems for the monthly feature at my old XNAVault site, and this pack here was one of my proudest offerings. These are vintage computers and supporting hardware from back in the 1960s and 1970s, when computer systems used to fill a whole room but had far less processing power than the cell phone you have in your pocket or purse. All of these are ported SketchUp models and all of them can be found and downloaded with some diligent searching over at Google's 3D Warehouse. There's an IBM System/360, an IBM System/370, a Digital (DEC) PDP system and various terminals, punch card readers, and both old style vertical tape drives and cabinet sized hard drives to make it all go. These were very well received by the online XPS community back at the time I featured these, although I don't think anybody ever used them in anything. Too old, perhaps? (laugh) But that was me, porting things for XPS use back then that struck my fancy or that I didn't see anybody else porting, and which I did right up to when I stopped porting and posting stuff for XPS use earlier this year. At least I was different in my time. (grin) While your tastes will probably be quite different, you newbies and youngbloods reading this who arestriving to make your mark in the XPS world (or others) might take note, as I've already shared before. Be different, and you'll get noticed.

SketchUp artist Jordi I. did almost all of the vintage IBM equipment you see in the image above. I'm not going to provide direct links to everything, but here's one to his fully populated IBM System/370 computer room over at Google's 3D Warehouse. It contains most of what you see in the picture above, and might make one or more of you who needs or wants vintage computer hardware like this a real porting challenge. Here's the link:

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

Be sure to download using the Collada DAE option, and that way you'll get a model that you can import into just about any 3D software out that supports the DAE format (Blender, 3DS Max, the free ModelConverterX utility, etc.).

P.S. - You might want to port all of that equipment one unit at a time to make it easier on yourself.

Description

NO MODEL DOWNLOAD. Be sure to read the description for my new Blasts from My Past Gallery before commenting. Here's the link if you haven't visited my Gallery section lately; click on Read More for the full description:

www.deviantart.com/digitalexpl…

In June of 2015 I featured retro computer and video game systems for the monthly feature at my old XNAVault site, and this pack here was one of my proudest offerings. These are vintage computers and supporting hardware from back in the 1960s and 1970s, when computer systems used to fill a whole room but had far less processing power than the cell phone you have in your pocket or purse. All of these are ported SketchUp models and all of them can be found and downloaded with some diligent searching over at Google's 3D Warehouse. There's an IBM System/360, an IBM System/370, a Digital (DEC) PDP system and various terminals, punch card readers, and both old style vertical tape drives and cabinet sized hard drives to make it all go. These were very well received by the online XPS community back at the time I featured these, although I don't think anybody ever used them in anything. Too old, perhaps? (laugh) But that was me, porting things for XPS use back then that struck my fancy or that I didn't see anybody else porting, and which I did right up to when I stopped porting and posting stuff for XPS use earlier this year. At least I was different in my time. (grin) While your tastes will probably be quite different, you newbies and youngbloods reading this who arestriving to make your mark in the XPS world (or others) might take note, as I've already shared before. Be different, and you'll get noticed.

SketchUp artist Jordi I. did almost all of the vintage IBM equipment you see in the image above. I'm not going to provide direct links to everything, but here's one to his fully populated IBM System/370 computer room over at Google's 3D Warehouse. It contains most of what you see in the picture above, and might make one or more of you who needs or wants vintage computer hardware like this a real porting challenge. Here's the link:

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

Be sure to download using the Collada DAE option, and that way you'll get a model that you can import into just about any 3D software out that supports the DAE format (Blender, 3DS Max, the free ModelConverterX utility, etc.).

P.S. - You might want to port all of that equipment one unit at a time to make it easier on yourself.