While you allude and link to it in your story, the actual source of the photograph including Harry Huskey is described in this 2004 article. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1954-home-computer/ It was the result of a Fark.com competition to generate a plausible photograph with a narrative.
The console in the background was taken from an original photograph of a submarine maneuvering room console found on the U.S. Navy website. The U.S. Navy photograph is in color. It shows a typical set of analog readouts found in early nuclear power plants. A stretched photograph of a teletype machine replaces the interpretive panel at the foreground of the exhibit.
It is indeed dangerous to anoint "the" inventor of the software-programmable digital computer, but my vote goes to Charles Babbage. Starting with Plan 27 in 1841, his design had conditional branching and thus was a Turing-complete general-purpose computer.
While you allude and link to it in your story, the actual source of the photograph including Harry Huskey is described in this 2004 article. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1954-home-computer/ It was the result of a Fark.com competition to generate a plausible photograph with a narrative.
The console in the background was taken from an original photograph of a submarine maneuvering room console found on the U.S. Navy website. The U.S. Navy photograph is in color. It shows a typical set of analog readouts found in early nuclear power plants. A stretched photograph of a teletype machine replaces the interpretive panel at the foreground of the exhibit.
Note this text from the 2004 article: "The color picture above was taken in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution exhibit "Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War." For additional details regarding this exhibit, please see this article which mentions NASM's Vice Admiral Donald D. Engen. https://soar.si.edu/sites/default/files/reports/02.08.exhibitioncasestudies.final.pdf See also https://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/index.html
It is indeed dangerous to anoint "the" inventor of the software-programmable digital computer, but my vote goes to Charles Babbage. Starting with Plan 27 in 1841, his design had conditional branching and thus was a Turing-complete general-purpose computer.