Time for page 951!

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I remember the Zip drive. A huge 100 MB of portable storage in a small package. Wow!

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I still have the 100 and a 250 in USB.
They are the new secure storage option (like straight drive transmission is a anti-theft option)

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Oh look. They now have convenient drop boxes
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Out of Gas, By George Hughes, 1961

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This is 'rope memory' which held the program onboard Apollo 11 for the moon landing trip in 1969.
72K of memory, all hand wound, taking months to "program". If a wire went through one of the circular cores it represented a binary one...
Yet it was one of the first user programmable computers.

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Man. At first I thought that was lattis strips of bacon. Don't ask my why. Thats just where my head went.
Spotted this guy in FL a couple months back.
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That's about $5.00, $3.00 a gallon, and about a $30,000 car in today's world.

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Well known for it's high rpm capabilities and high power output!

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When being certified to sell new Porsches, we had to go through training and pass a test. One key point of the training (in 1989) was that being a Porsche owner was exclusive. The 918 is the one for people who don't care about the money and want to brag "mine is bigger than yours". Besides that, the sound which will scream "Look at me, I own a porch"