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tvguide61today at 3:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why the thin black curtain on the window?

Thoughts:

1. To block some sunlight from getting in.

2. It’s a secure facility and wanted to prevent people from looking in.

3. To not have to look at something outside.

4. It’s a secure facility and wanted to prevent the chance of taking a picture of someone or something outside that could compromise the location of the computer or someone’s identity; sometimes the first place a photogenic computer was built was at a customer site.


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estimator7292today at 4:49 AM

It was the 70s, and that was simply the style at the time.

ssl-3today at 4:12 AM

Or, you know: Sometimes, a window shade is just a window shade.