2020 New Random Pics

[Scott Douglas]

[red 928]

[rockfan4]

Time for page 951!

[GH85Carrera]

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

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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

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)

[Por_sha911]

Opps. Random pic:

[Por_sha911]

Oh look. They now have convenient drop boxes

[GH85Carrera]

Out of Gas, By George Hughes, 1961




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.

[Racerbvd]

[CurtEgerer]

[chapstic2001]

Man. At first I thought that was lattis strips of bacon. Don't ask my why. Thats just where my head went.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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.

Spotted this guy in FL a couple months back.

[Bill Douglas]

[GH85Carrera]

[Jeff Higgins]

[GH85Carrera]

That's about $5.00, $3.00 a gallon, and about a $30,000 car in today's world.

[GH85Carrera]

[Racerbvd]

[Steve Carlton]

[Racerbvd]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

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