2020 New Random Pics

[porsche930dude]

[911boost]

^^^

[Heel n Toe]

[GH85Carrera]

Yukon, OK Original home of Garth Brooks.

[GH85Carrera]

The first photograph showing a living person. Paris, France. 1838. Photo by Louis Daguerre.






Grandala are deeply sexually dimorphic and this is the difference. While females are brown with white streaks all over the head, males are almost eye-searing blue. This picture captured by Rajesh Panwar in North Sikkim, India, gives a nice visualization.

[masraum]

I'm not a whiskey/bourbon, guy, but WTF?!?!

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

"Xerographic high-speed output printer made by Rank Precision Industries. The electronic character-forming circuits are contained in a separate cabinet."


In 1663, the partial fossilized skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in Germany. This is the “Magdeburg Unicorn”, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history.

[Baz]

[GH85Carrera]

One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia

[GH85Carrera]

ACE digital computer at the National Physical Laboratory
Seymour Cray was not the first person to build a walk-in cylindrical computer!


Fossilized Footprints found in White Sands National Park : A multidisciplinary team of scientists recently announced the discovery of the oldest human footprints in North America. These fossilized prints were made between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago along the shores of an ice age lake that once filled the Tularosa Basin in south-central New Mexico, in what is now White Sands National Park. This finding fundamentally changes the timeline on North American human habitation – turning back the clock of human arrival in the Americas nearly 10,000 years. The footprints were formed when ancient peoples walked over damp, sandy ground surrounding the former lake. Over time, sediment filled in the footprints as the ground hardened fossilizing the prints. Recently, erosion has resurfaced the prints, making many of them visible to the naked eye. By testing the sediment, researchers were able to carbon date the prints, with the oldest set being 22,800 years old.


Easy to remove the anti-theft devices marketing.

[GH85Carrera]

Regency TR-1 First Transistor Radio, AM reception only - 1954








The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer - the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the 'Baby' - was designed and built by F.C. Williams and Tom Kilburn at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on 21 June 1948.

[john70t]

[quicksix]

83 944 with less than 90k on the clock.

[porsche tech]

Originally Posted by quicksix

83 944 with less than 90k on the clock.

Great looking car…only problem with ‘83…no P/S!

Random: Dr’s parking at local hospital…993 C4S out of picture…

[GH85Carrera]

Mrs. Coleman doing a washing at Irwinville Farms, Georgia. May 1938. (Photo by By John Vachon).


IBM 701 Tape Drive
The First Magnetic Tape Drive for Computer Data Storage

In 1949, IBM began to plan for a new storage and i/o medium to take the place of punched cards. The new medium would be more compact, faster, cheaper, and reusable. Magnetic tape technology had been used for audio recording and playback since World War II, and it was adapted for computer use — initially in a prototype called the Tape Processing Machine (TPM), 1950-51. Of course computer data storage and retrieval is different from audio recording and playback, requiring accurate positioning (both forwards and backwards) to arbitrary spots and therefore much fancier motors, not to mention stress relief for the tape itself, accomplished with vacuum columns (invented by IBM). New digital recording techniques were developed allowing mapping of computer memory to tape with error detection, coding of records and boundaries, and so forth.
The first magnetic tape drives were successfully demonstrated on the TPM and then adapted to the 701 (also known as the Defense Calculator), IBM's first commercial computer, which could accommodate four tape drives. The 701 tape drive shown above recorded 100 characters per inch and had a throughput of 70 inches (or 7000 characters) per second.

[GH85Carrera]

I wonder how many miles this idiot trucker drove with the tires locked up. That is a bad flat spot!


This Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, a large four engined turbo-prop with eight contra-rotating propellers, shows the effect of wingtip vortices on the clouds.


Once Janss Conejo Ranch, one of the popular GUNSMOKE locations - now 'Avenida de Los Arboles' (Avenue of Trees), Thousand Oaks, CA.
A then-and-now comparison, highlighting the explosive growth of suburban sprawl, as the state's population doubled since '55
And anyone that ever has been to Kansas knows there are no mountains or hills like that around Dodge City. Kansas.




When I was young I used to chuckle when Audie Murphy would grit his teeth and act tough.
I thought, typically Hollywood actor chip on his shoulder, wanta be tough guy.
Boy was I embarrassed when I discovered what a great Hero he was /is during WW II.
We were lucky to have him protecting our country.
Followed by so many years of great entertainment.
Most definitely one of the greats.

[red 928]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When I was young I used to chuckle when Audie Murphy would grit his teeth and act tough.
I thought, typically Hollywood actor chip on his shoulder, wanta be tough guy.
Boy was I embarrassed when I discovered what a great Hero he was /is during WW II.
We were lucky to have him protecting our country.
Followed by so many years of great entertainment.
Most definitely one of the greats.

Well deserved and earned praise indeed. ^^


Another one,
this time from the great war:

[GH85Carrera]

[TimT]