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Computing whether I am a threat or not. Taken at the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge here in Idaho.
Just an odd sky display on my way to Meaher Park last week...it was huge and dominated the sky...I just felt compelled to pull over for a shot!
This is the hardware side of the NAS solution I was putting together before I came down with COVID. Will have that working shortly. This little computer compared with my very first PC here.
Shot with Sony 24-105mm f/2.8 macro lens on Sony a7r iii.
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We use this machine at our research center to train deep neural networks and for other compute-intensive tasks.
That is some high tech right there.
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I made this picture for the Inria contest on "Computing: past, present, and future". The abacus is, to me, the birth of computing.
I borrowed a camera with a very fast lens, and went to the server room of our research center, where I played finding a spot for the abacus in the middle of the computing equipment. A large numerical aperture gave me a short depth of field, turning the lights in a nice bokeh.
I did fairly little post-processing, using darktable as always. I used a local contrast filter on the abacus itself, and pushed the colors in the top right of the photo toward green.
Old cash register on display at the cute and quaint Al Vecchio Convento hotel in Forlì-Cesena, Italy.
..in west of Ireland. Old Head Beach, located along the County Mayo coastline. This popular beach is located 16 kilometers(10 miles) west of Westport town.
Petri Computor 35, with CC Petri 2.8/40 lens.
Compact camera, produced from 1970 until 1974. Clearly inspired by the Konica C35, so it has the programmed shutter and rangefinder focussing, but it differs in details. The exposure metering in not controlled by a needle displayed in the viewfinder, but by two lights (green/orange) for acceptable or risky shutter speeds. They are visible on top and in the viewer.
The film speed is set with a ring around the lens and not with a fiddly ring inside the filter thread. As the camera has no dial for exposure compensation, you can manipulate the exposure very quickly here.
Cray 2 Supercomputer for the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulator at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View California.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AC87-0093-3
Date: November 30, 1986
Man, I thought this was the coolest thing ever back in the day! So much so that I've never been able to part with it. It's been sitting in my junk drawer for so many years. I was happily surprised that the two AAA batteries had not corroded and also that I found two charged up ones to replace them with. And the thing fired right up!
The Palm IIIxe was introduced in February 2000 at a cost of US$249. If you care to read a bit about the Palm IIIxe click here.
Today's shot is for The Hereios' theme, computers.
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Science Fiction surely?
No, the future is now, it's the Raspberry Pi!
A piece of electronic wizardry that aims to inspire children (and adults) to code and look behind the flashy buttons to see the bare bones of computing.
HMM! Theme "Science Fiction"
Apologies for the lack of communication, away at Center Parcs with pretty much zero connection. Back now and knackered.
A closer view of what sits on my desk in our office... Too see a wider angle view and more stuff Click Here, the description on the other photo also goes into much more detail about what I use and how I use it.
In short, about 5 years ago I uploaded a photo (now quite outdated) of what my desk looked like and the computing technology that I used... but now long overdue I have upgraded and replaced quite a bit. Things are now much simpler and easier to use... oh and I finally made the switch to Mac and have been loving life on OS-X.
What this photo shows is:
A 30" NEC monitor connected to an Apple Hex Core 3.33Ghz. Mac Pro w/12GB of RAM, dual 50GB OWC Solid State Drives(SSD), four 2TB Western Digital Black hard drives and a NewerTech eSATA card and two external 500GB Western Digital Studio Edition hard drives. The desktop has an Apple Wireless Keyboard, a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse connected via Bluetooth and a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard and a Microsoft LaserMouse6000 connected via USB2 sitting on a HumanScale 4G keyboard tray (it's designed for the Microsoft 'natural' form factor). Finally the Mac Pro has a Wacom Intuos3 tablet and a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers.
Laptop - An Apple 15" MacBookPro Core i5 2.4Ghz. notebook with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB Seagate MomentusXT hard drive (which also includes a 4GB SSD cache), with the upgraded high res. display. Attached is a 500GB G-Tech G-Drive Mini and a 1TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro external drives connected via Firewire800 and an Apple MagicMouse via Bluetooth.
There is more going on in terms of networking, storage, etc. but if you want to know more about that, click on this other image.
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My Mom kept all of my drawings, it seems. I taped more and more pages together for my James-Bond-like underground data center. I seem to really like IBM tape storage, radar screens, and the more blinking lights the better. This dreamscape is soooo exciting to me, even today.
I think this was from when I was about 12 years old, just before I got my first computer in 7th grade (an Apple ][ and I added individual Mostek DIP memory chips from Dad's fab to take it to 48K).