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At the computer history museum in Mountain View they have a working Babbage Difference Engine replica. A sight to behold, almost steampunk, but really an actual design.
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The computer room at the Roosevelt Community Center. The room will be used for classes such as computer skills and word processing.
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I spend most of my time on this bad boy right here. From gaming, to music, to editing, to watching tv, this computer is an important part in my life.
Knox College computer science professor John Dooley on the second day of his course, Introduction to Computer Science, had a student tear a phone book successively in half, to demonstrate the efficiency of a binary search. Photo by Peter Bailley.
Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer from the early 1980's - considered very powerful in its day. It replaced the famous PC-1211/ PC-1212, although the 1500 was much larger.
Got all of this (plus more) for FREE, for helping a gentleman move some stuff out of his house.
Macintosh IIe (plus Apple Floppy Drive attachment)
Macintosh 512K with original keyboard and slightly newer mouse, plus a Imagewriter II dot-matrix printer
A 1983 Sr. Partner Panasonic "portable" computer. It comes with a 4.77Mhz processor, and 256K of RAM. Works well, too.
Also, two 50MB hard drives, that weigh around 5 pounds each.
First edition of the Digi-Comp II Kit-- in CNC carved wood. A recreation of the 1960's educatinoal binary mechanical computer that uses rolling balls and flip flops as computing elements. Read more about this on our blog, here.
DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Berkeley Lab is one of two computing centers hosting the Magellan Cloud Computing system to assess the ability of cloud computing to help meet DOE's computational science workload. Funded under the Recovery Act. Magellan is built on the IBM iDataplex chassis using 5,760 processor cores for a theoretical peak performance of 61.5 teraflop/s (61.5 trillion floating point operations per second). Read more at: www.lbl.gov/cs/Archive/news101409.html
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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I literally work in one area that is not only my office and work bench, but also the server room and the IT supply storage area. With a work area like this, is it any wonder I feel stressed at work!?!
I received an email from a coworker about a retiring professor trying to retrieve data off of old computers. Our central IT was unable to assist due to the age of the machines. The professor was trying to move files from a Mac OS X 10.2, 10.4, and NeXT computer. My heart skipped a beat after that reading that last one. Moving the vintage Mac files would be no problem because I keep those tools handy. I restore vintage Apple //, Macintosh, and other hardware as a hobby.
If you don't know what a NeXT computer is, it's this insanely expensive computer built by Steve Jobs after he was ousted from Apple in the 1980's. It ran Unix, had a gorgeous graphical user interface, and if you use OS X today it is still the foundational basis for the operating system. It was lightyears ahead of anything else out there at the time. Have you ever visited a website before? The first webpage was served on a NeXTcube.
I've never seen a working NeXT computer before though. I saw one in Berlin in a museum and read about them extensively, but I had no idea that our university actually had them.
I immediately went to the professor's office and he showed me what he was trying to do. We talked a little bit about vintage hardware and I told him that I'd never seen a working NeXT before. I was a little hesitant to respond because day-to-day we're flooded with tickets IT support isn't really my thing. Sometimes users, especially tenured professors, need a delicate approach because of their demands. This person could not have been more affable, kind, and good hearted. After talking a while he said he would rather have the hardware saved than go to scrap per university policy.
In the interest of archiving his data and this magnificent hardware I will be cooperating with him to save this NeXT computer. I've also agreed to save the Mac Cube and Power Macintosh G3. Twist my arm. They'll become archive computers if anyone needs a WordPerfect 3.5 file converted. Yes, people still have those.
I decided to document everything in place before moving it all to a secure location. That includes the NeXT computer, original manuals, flyers, software, printers, accessories, and even the original boxes.
The plan is to document EVERYTHING in detail. So stay tuned for future updates.
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The computer lab was painted over the holiday period, so these computers, normally stacked on the floor, were stacked on the workbench.
The Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program's Purple system stands in testimony to the successful realization of the bold vision expressed one decade earlier—the development of the complex three-dimensional integrated weapons performance applications and their demonstration on computers capable of successfully running these extraordinary codes. This 100 teraFLOPS supercomputer is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It is a genuinely huge machine based on symmetric shared-memory multiprocessors (SMP) containing more than 12,000 next-generation IBM POWER5 microprocessors.