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A mag tape drive of the type which was typically found connected to an IBM mainframe back in the '70s and '80s.
The IBM 5155, an otherwise pretty much standard IBM PC in a luggable case, if you're a weight lifter. Came with an amber (monochrome) screen built-in.
I was attending Boise State University at the time. This would have been the days of "The Wiz and Wendy."
View On Black (Its really cool!)
The classic simplicity of Mies van der Rohe's IBM Building (with Marina Towers reflected on the bottom right side)
IBM mainframe computers have provided the technology backbone for businesses requiring secure systems for processing massive amounts of business data, which today includes transactions from ATMs, medical records and stocks. Pictured below, the IBM 1401 -- introduced in 1959 -- was one of the first computers to run completely on transistors, not vacuum tubes. Dave Michlowski, top photo, IBM employee, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., installs a new component into IBM's newest zEnterprise, which has over 50,000 times more processing capability than the IBM 1401.
New IBM storage system that they purchase last year from a smaller company. This is a fully solid state system of 20 TB (when fully populated) connecting via Fibre Channel to SVC (or traditional SAN storage configuration). Screaming fast (even faster than traditional SSD or Fusion IO by a few orders of magnitude). Very impressed.
An old IBM ThinkPad 600 my Mum had knocking about, aren't Mums cool?
The error screen is actually awesome, the duck flaps its wings as you move the cursor around!!
This baby has a "screaming fast mobile Pentium II processor"... reckon I might be able to get it running Ubuntu at the w/e.
These are IBM's Power6 CPUs. They are dual-core and runs at 5GHz. Very fast, very hot, and very power hungry. These goes into the IBM 9119-FHA, largest of the Power6 model machines. Each "PU Book" houses 4 of these CPUs and each 9119-FHA can house 8 "Book"; making each 9119-FHA capable of running 64 CPUs. Quite impressive.
We are looking at getting Power7 machines (9119-FHB) when they are available and they can house 128 CPUs with each running at 2 "hyper-threads". Going to be quite a massive computing platform!
DAY 2: Second shipment of the SAME CD from IBM. Each CD was shipped separaterly. Shame on them. Total copies of the same CD received: 8
For more information about The National Museum of Computing , visit www.tnmoc.org
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
Amazing IBM ad in The Economist from June 13th, 2009. I spent way too much time color correcting this.
Architect: Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 (IBM Building)
Description: View of the IBM building in 1972. In the foreground are a bridge over the Chicago River and the old Sun-Times building (demolished). The Marina City towers are partially visible behind the IBM building.
Photographer: Brubaker, C. William, 1972
Architecture Date: 1969-1971 (IBM Building)
Geographic coverage: Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Collection: C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections Department
File Name: bru003_03_rF
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