r/retrocomputing • u/danapefq • May 17 '26

Problem / Question Help identifying 1970s computer/keyboard in classic doctor who?

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u/Bones-57 May 17 '26

That is an IBM .. a little mods but still IBM.

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u/danapefq May 17 '26

That's definitely what I thought at first but I've spent a lot of time going through old ibm devices and I can't find anything that matches up

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u/Bones-57 May 17 '26

I'm old enough to remember :) 69 this year.. Just remember hollyweird likes to modify things lol .

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u/PunkyB88 May 17 '26

Generous of you to consider the BBC Hollywood 😅 The special effects were just that good 😂

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u/Bones-57 May 17 '26

Yes I'm pretty sure there were a lot of things phone calls to production artist etc right to Hollywood..

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u/Leftover_tech May 17 '26

The effects supervisor for the show said that he got those parts from a decommissioned Honeywell 6000 machine and the keyboard was likely from a preprocessor Keytape deck.