What they did
Provided image of CDC 6600 historic control panel; Claude analyzed and disassembled the switch commands.
How it went
Claude produced disassembly in ~2 minutes; not detailed but impressive for historical document.
Claude decoded a CDC 6600 control panel from a photo in 2 minutes
A photo of the dead-start switch panel from a historic supercomputer. Claude Opus read the switches and disassembled them into commands in about two minutes. Not detailed, but impressive.
Result Not detailed, but impressive for a historic panel
“I had Claude Opus disassemble the CDC 6600 dead start panel”
Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.
Try it yourself with Claude
I have an image of a [historic computer control panel]. Analyze it and provide: switch layout, command interpretation, function of each control group. This will be used to document [system]. Be thorough but acknowledge uncertainty.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.