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Did they HAVE computers in the '60s?

I mean, weren't they all just painted cardboard with flashing lights, ala Star Trek? Lo and behold apparently not. Check out these pics (over at boingboing.net) of some Data Center action around 40-some-odd years ago. The one with the bathroom plunger kills me (yes, bathroom plunger).