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A BBN computer room in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in late 1971: vinyl-tile floor, acoustic ceiling, laminated terminal desks, and matte blue-grey steel equipment banks with unequal vents, worn handles, and rubbed lower corners. Tomlinson’s body rests on the swivel chair, and all five chair feet meet the tile floor. Both shoes meet the floor; his left forearm rests on the terminal desk. One fingertip contacts the left terminal’s transmit key while the other hand steadies against the keyboard casing. Each terminal rests flat on its own desk. The paper web wraps around the receiving platen; the printer carriage contacts and advances it. Each host’s rear cable bends under its own weight into a separate floor raceway channel and exits the frame toward interface equipment. The two host cabinets stand on the same floor with clear air between their inner edges. Each host equipment bank is about 1.8 m tall, slightly taller than the 1.75 m programmer would be while standing. It is late 1971: Pale long-sleeved office shirt, dark straight trousers, loosened narrow tie, dark socks, and low leather shoes.; Matte painted steel, moulded terminal casings, laminated work surfaces, vinyl floor tile, rubber cable jackets, paper, cotton, and leather.; Two PDP-10-class host systems running TENEX, electromechanical keyboard-printer terminals, separate host data cables, and ARPANET interface equipment beyond the frame. Packet transfer is represented solely by the receiving terminal’s moving carriage and advancing paper.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Quiet concentration at an unexpectedly consequential test.. 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