DEC PDP-8/E brain surgery station, for stimulating and measuring nerve activity in patients.

From NASA KSC firing room. This is a 16-bit minicomputer.

If you haven't, read the info in the previous pic, too. There's also a nicer closeup pic of that LED panel on Bill Buzbee's HomebrewCPU at his site here. I asked after getting some info from him if the terminal next to it was connected to the computer he'd built from scratch, and he said yes, and then typed in some commands, and up fired a version of Conway's "Game of Life," all while the red LEDs on the homebuilt computer lit up, tracking registers, and serving out the info. The game played back at about 1.5FPS, which I find amazing. Definitely read what he did at his site. Here's a preview:

"Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn't use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. And, it works. Not only the hardware, but there's also a full ANSI C compiler for Magic-1 (retargeted LCC), and a rudimentary homebrew operating system."

Unreal.

Render of laptop computer mind explosion.

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SANDIA DEMONSTRATION OF A TEAM OF ROBOTS RESCUING A SKIER BURIED IN AVALANCHE.

A COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPED AT SANDIA USES A GROUP OF ROBOTS TO RAPIDLY LOCATE PEOPLE BURIED UNDER AN AVALANCHE. THE SYSTEM CAN BE USED BY PEOPLE CARRYING MINICOMPUTERS, GLOBAL POSITIONING RECEIVERS, AND SIMPLE RADIO EQIUPMENT TO FIND PEOPLE BURIED IN AVALANCHES FOUR TIMES FASTER THAN CONVENTIONAL METHODS.

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Cheshire's LSI-11/73 system, lives in a system box that originally held an LSI-11/03. Many upgrades since the original!

The peripherals in the left cabinet are all after-market: "shoebox" enclosures with a 640 MB hard drive and an RX50 compatible 5.25" floppy, a DSD-880 combo RX02 compatible 8" floppy drive plus hard drive, and a Cipher microstreamer 9-track tape drive. With a CIT-101 terminal on top.

In the right cabinet only the Q-bus system box. This one is amped up with a full 4 MB of DRAM, an i386 coprocessor system, and a MIPS 8800 coprocessor system. The coprocessors are Avalon Vaccelerators (AP/10 and AP/20) but we ported their driver and compiler support to RT-11.

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RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY TO MEASURE AMBIENT PRESSURE FLAME.

SCIENTISTS USE ADVANCED LASERS AND COMPUTERS AT THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT, FOUR-BUILDING COMBUSTION RESEARCH FACILITY TO STUDY EXACTLY HOW AND WHY FUELS BURN. IN THE LABORATORY BUILDING, SPECIAL LASER SYSTEMS WITH BEAMS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO 14 INDIVIDUAL LABORATORIES. EACH LABORATORY IS SERVED BY A MINICOMPUTER WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A CENTRAL DATA SYSTEM. IN ADDITION TO BENCH-TOP FLAME STUDIES, THE FACILITY HOUSES SEVERAL MAJOR COMBUSTION EXPERIMENT LABS, INCLUDING FIVE OPTICALLY PORTED RESEARCH ENGINES, A COMPUTER-CONTROL- LED COMBUSTION BOMB, AND LOW-PRESSURE FLAME, COAL FLAME, AND TURBULENT FLAME LABORATORIES. THESE STUDIES COULD LEAD TO THE DESIGN OF HEAT ENGINES AND ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT BURN FUEL MORE EFFICIENTLY WHILE CREATING LESS POLLUTION.

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The Exeter Library Code Club meets fortnightly to learn coding using the Raspberry Pi minicomputer. On Thursday the Code Club went to the Bett Show in London. The Bett Show is the world's leading learning technology event that brings together inspiration and innovation within the education industry

Lots of interest in Raspberry Jam

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The Raspberry Pi is a low- cost, credit-card sized minicomputer. It is a powerful device that enables people of all ages to explore computing and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a regular desktop computer to do, such as searching the internet and watching high-definition video or making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games. For more information, please kindly check at this link: www.geeetech.com/raspberry-pi-model-b-p-853.html

PiDP-8 This is a Raspberry Pi-based simulation of a PDP-8 minicomputer from the 1960s. Good, geeky fun!

For those old enough to remember 5 1/4" floppy disks. This is the application software for the mini computer running the X-Ray system. The 1980's live on.

ENGINEERS ASSEMBLING VW'S COMBUSTION BOMB (STRATIFIED CHARGE COMBUSTION CHAMBER SIMULATOR).

SCIENTISTS USE ADVANCED LASERS AND COMPUTERS AT THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT, FOUR-BUILDING COMBUSTION RESEARCH FACILITY TO STUDY EXACTLY HOW AND WHY FUELS BURN. IN THE LABORATORY BUILDING, SPECIAL LASER SYSTEMS WITH BEAMS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO 14 INDIVIDUAL LABORATORIES. EACH LABORATORY IS SERVED BY A MINICOMPUTER WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A CENTRAL DATA SYSTEM. IN ADDITION TO BENCH-TOP FLAME STUDIES, THE FACILITY HOUSES SEVERAL MAJOR COMBUSTION EXPERIMENT LABS, INCLUDING FIVE OPTICALLY PORTED RESEARCH ENGINES, A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED COMBUSTION BOMB, AND LOW-PRESSURE FLAME, COAL FLAME, AND TURBULENT FLAME LABORATORIES. THESE STUDIES COULD LEAD TO THE DESIGN OF HEAT ENGINES AND ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT BURN FUEL MORE EFFICIENTLY WHILE CREATING LESS POLLUTION.

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Part of the new LPC-800 Series of Rugged Fanless Mini PCs.

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The control panel of a vintage industrial minicomputer, perhaps from the late seventies (1970s). I believe the longest row of switches, numbered from 0 to 15, are for entering data into the computer in binary code. I've actually used a similar minicomputer many years ago and it was a pain entering programs into the computer in binary. We didn't have thumb drives and optical disks back then.

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At Smithsonian Air Museum, Hazy Center. DEC's 16-bit minicomputer.

This is the only "selfie" I've taken with a cell phone front-side camera.

The actual subject is the poster on the wall, which I photographed for nostalgia's sake, having recently learned that a member of one of my Yahoo Groups was an architect for the PDP-11 family of computers at Digital Equipment Corporation. He mentioned the ill-fated PRO-350, so this poster immediately came to mind. Sadly, I have the poster but not one of the actual computers - though the LSI-11/73 in another photo is a close cousin.

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Detail of 1965 PDP-8 minicomputer, on display at the Science Museum, London.

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My VAX 11/780, sitting halted because it has bad memory

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The Raspberry Pi is moving the small bent wires to play the metal cylinders to make music.

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austin, texas

1977

motorola semiconductor plant

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

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Jay: ¡Estoy rodeado de cosas divertidas! ¡¡Coches, pollos de goma, refrescos y ordenadores!!

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Hand size comparison photo

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«I've finally bought a new toy, an Acer Aspire One. I'm in love with this cutie since the first time I read about it, around may.

I know that it's just a not-so-powerful minicomputer. A toy. But among all the tech-toys I've seen, this one is made for me.

Like the Moleskine.»

Raspberry Pi Jam is held at Exeter Library on the first Saturday of the month 10am – 12noon. The Raspberry Pi's can run Scratch, a free programming language where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations. It is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab aimed at young people.

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Express Card Slot photo

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A child learning how to set up and play Minecraft using a Raspberry Pi on National Libraries Day.

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The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie

Prentice-Hall Software Series

UNIX and the C Programming Language

“MIT’s early timesharing projects led to the invention of the MULTICS operating system, which ran on General Electric (later Honeywell) mainframe computers. Bell Laboratories contributed to its development until they dropped out of the project in 1969.

Two Bell programmers, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, independently made a smaller version of MULTICS that ran on a single minicomputer. They called their system UNIX, to represent “one of whatever MULTICS was many of,” and freely distributed it to anyone who asked. An operating system that was not supported by a major computer manufacturer and that was free for the asking was a radical concept in the early 1070s, but was soon adopted by universities and research groups around the world.

The cryptic commands used to control UNIX, such as “is,” “pwd,” “cd,” and “man,” gave it both power and mystery. While these efficient commands still exist in modern variants of the system, the advent of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) made UNIX more accessible. Today, there is a version of UNIX available for almost every commercially available computer, and a strong group of supporters make free versions of UNIX available via the Internet. Programmers developed the C language to simplify the development of UNIX. The C language has since become one of the most widely used languages, particularly for systems programming.”

Computer History Museum

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DEC VAX 11/750 at the Computer History Museum. Note the OPERATOR SWITCHES. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX

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And a huge floppy disk

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KSR Model ? Teletype TTY at Planes of Fame, Chino, CA. Seen better days. These were used as consoles for many types of minicomputers.

The Exeter Library Code Club meets fortnightly to learn coding using the Raspberry Pi minicomputer. On Thursday the Code Club went to the Bett Show in London. The Bett Show is the world's leading learning technology event that brings together inspiration and innovation within the education industry