Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

[Mills]

 

[Texan79423]

I am so glad I got to live and enjoy the America our fathers fought and died for.

 

[orbitup]

 

[msharley]

I am so glad I got to live and enjoy the America our fathers fought and died for. View attachment 449709 View attachment 449710

Amen, brother.

Amen!

 

[Bigguy]

Core memory board for a DEC PDP 11/45 main frame. Circa 1972. 32K if I remember correctly.

 

[popsgarland]

 

[Bigguy]

The first computers in Newspapers in the early 1990s went to the graphic and photo departments. Nobody in those days predicted a computer department. We just kept adding them one or two at a time. The first "computer guys" at news papers were graphic artists or photographers who adapted to them. I was hired as a graphic artists but wound up a department heard running the IT department.
As more computers were added we needed more hubs . (Not switches or routers in those days.) When we filled up one, we'd buy another and stack it on top of the other one sitting on a table. Out network was never designed and installed, it simply grew. This was taken after buying our first rack.

Network wiring was simply run through drop ceilings.

We eventually learned to try and keep network wiring aways from power lines.

 

[glenbo]

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Core memory board for a DEC PDP 11/45 main frame. Circa 1972. 32K if I remember correctly.

For comparison, my iPhone 14 has a 5-core GPU and contains something like 6.8 billion transistors. That's what apple says but it's beyond my imagination.