When a computer occupied two huge rooms, had a smoothed three-phase AC supply, and the CPU was 5 feet high and over 10 feet long spread across several cabinets.
Ours was an ICL1903T, with semiconductor store replacing the original magnetic core memory.
The operator's console is a 110baud teletype, and behind them is a row of EDS8 disk drives (8MB), next to the tape decks.
Foreground right is the and of an old ICT barrel printer, the newer ICL barrel printer is out of shot.
You can just see the control buttons of the punch card reader to the right of the operators.
It ran batch jobs with spooled card reader and line printer, as well as a multiuser terminal system supporting the college.
Not bad for 96Kwords of store!