Old Computer Pictures

[Hammurabi]

I love the pictures of the old computers on this site:
http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/HistoryPt3.htm

[S6k9GNh0]

Very interesting. Reminds me of when I was first interested in computers.

[QWERTYman]

I think the "first bug" is my favorite.

[Hammurabi]

Yeah, that's hilarious. I remember seeing that woman on Letterman (if you can believe it). This was years ago and she was very old at the time. She talked about how she explained to an army general why signals take so long to go up to a satellite and back by showing him a piece of wire the length that the signal will go in a nanosecond (about one foot). Then she said that there were a lot of those up to the satellite and back.

[Hatsune]

Yeah, very interesting pictures.
So much buttons, it looks like space ship. :)

[chrisname]

Space ship :P

I wonder about the computers on the Apollo landers. They must have had to have been powerful; but it wasn't even the 70s yet...

[helios]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

I would have thought there were none aboard, and the data was sent back down for processing and sent back up, but come to think of it, the latency would have been unbearable. Not to mention the radio silence when the ship passed behind the moon.

[chrisname]

Lol, people complain about having a latency of over 50ms with gameserver in a country in a different timezone during multiplayer games, imagine the latency you'd get from space :o

You should know all about NASA projects, you named your account after one...

[helios]

Easy mistake to make, as there are several things called "Helios". It's actually after a fictional direct-democratic administrator. Right now, I wish I had put a little more thought into my screen name. Plus, almost no one knows how to spell "Helios" in Spanish (the 'h' is silent) so I always end up spelling out my e-mail.
Nobody knows their Greek mythology.

[z05DSL3A]

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm ... ;0)