I discovered "Young attractive female electronic engineer" is actually a stock image search term.
I searched for "naked female electronic engineer" and got this as the first hit:
I think the genre is under-represented, something must be done!
That's interesting (not the naked female engineer bit ). The tape drive at the top of that rack seem to have the same transports as used in the DEC TU56. I wonder which came first, I thought DEC originated it.
That is a chopped-up LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer), and I think that is Mary Allen Wilkes at the console. If you look up her name, the same pic comes up, with a couple more. One is of one of the first LINCs at the bottom of her parent's stairwell, while she was writing the OS/editor/assembler package for the LINC called LAP-6.
The LINC was a pretty revolutionary computer from about 1965. About 50 were made at a "Summer School" by MIT in one of the DEC mill buildings.
It was a 12-bit computer which was used interactively. There was a Soroban keyboard and an oscilloscope screen that could display a very limited amount of text, but it was still a GREAT leap forward from a clattering Teletype. I think the LINCtape came first, invented by Wesley Clark at MIT Lincoln Labs, and then mass produced by DEC. While slow, it was WAY better than punched paper tape!
The actual LINC processor cabinet is cleverly hidden to the right of the picture (follow the big black cables). It was a 6' tall rack cabinet.
Jon