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I never had to deal with this style tape drive. In high school, we had, I think it was a 20Mb hard drive the size of a large serving platter.
From my analog archives, the Sigma 3 was being used for real time data collection and analysis in life sciences R&D. It had 64k of IRON core memory. It was taken in September of 1978 in Skokie, illinois. Initially the Sigma line of scientific real time computers was used to collect and analyze telemetry data from early US satellites. On the far left of the frame, the papers are taped to a Xerox 530 which we used as the development environment.
Original Commodore Pet 2001. Everyone hated the chiclet keyboard so for the next version they moved the tape drive and used a full-sized keyboard.
This is about what my room looked like after graduationg college (5/1997) until I bought my own house (1/1999). I did this weird thing where I moved my bed for the first time I was 9 -- into the middle of the wall it was on. It actually made sense and worked out better for me, but looked worse.
Visible stuff includes:
1) my MCI laptop with docking station (permanently connected to my 36' CRT TV)
2) my college era computer (the taller one, and the first of two machines named "Hades" -- the current "Hades" being my 2007 computer)
3) my 1999 computer (the first of two machines named "Hell" -- the current "Hell" being my 2004 Gateway piece-of-crap in-the-basement computer). And yes, that's an external tape drive on top of it.
4) The big TV. It is from 1977 and only died when faced with the evil wiring in my house, around 2002ish. We turned it on its side and used it as an end-table for a few years after that ("You know you're a redneck when...").
5)The little TV. Still lives today, though it's not hooked up to anything, is in a place nobody would ever use it to watch, and only picks up 1 or 2 channels. I can't believe that's what we watched everything during college on. Such a shame. Back in college, the audio to what I watched was routed to my computer, where a DOS program called Cthugha made it react to audio of the program. Eventually, Carolyn & I set this up on both our computers, and had one on each side of the screen. The screen on the left reacted to the left-speaker audio, and the screen on the right (obviously) reacted to the right screen audio. It was really cool, and ahead of its time.
6) Small TV is on VHS cabinets. I no longer use these. They were a treat to throw down my attic stairs and watch smash into separate wooden pieces. At AE & Meagan's birthday party recently, I saw one of these in somebody's trash as we walked to our car.
7) Yes, my stereo is ON TOP of the TV. This space saving measure was a godsend. Modern CRTs stopped giving you a place to set stuff. (A conspiracy to force us to buy $500 entertainment centers?) Old TVs WERE the entertainment center.
8) Mr. Bungle poster: A tribute of hoarding. I got that from Waxie Maxies in Potomac Mills around 1990 or so, many years before I'd ever heard Mr. Bungle -- or even Faith No More. I didn't seek out Mr. Bungle just because I had the poster; Mr. Bungle came to me. Eventually I had to put it up because I was a fan. Yay hoarding!
9) Cool fractal artwork on the wall -- we still need to put this up on our wall today, 10 yeras later.
10) Remnants of my bunk bed, which is spaceship-themed.
11) My Misfits - Die, Die My Darling 12-inch single traced artwork, xeroxed and still around today on the inside of our kitchen pantry.
TV, VHS tape, VHS tapes, blacklight, bunk bed, cabinets, closet, clothes, compressed air, computer, cushion, fractal art, laptop, monitors, phone, pill bottle, tape drive, trackball, wires.
Clint's room, Mom and Dad's house, Woodbridge, Virginia.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
We reorganized our "gadget drawers", managing to get 4 drawers of stuff compressed into 2 drawers.
I had such high aspirations for this tape drive. I spent $300 on it! The blank DC2120 tapes were $14 or so, and only held 256M. You can get a 1G USB thumbdrive for less than that these days! I had a fantasy of walking down dorm halls and being able to copy any data from people on the fly, but the reality was that you had to carry around a floppy for the software, and the process was still quite slow.
I did at least use this to back up my BBS. And when my harddrive crashed, the only remaining copy of my BBS was on this tape. And ... I can't get it off the tape. I still have DC2120 tapes that need recovery! When my grandad died, I tried using HIS tape drive to no avail. I'm keeping the tapes, but throwing away the drive. I'd totally pay $10 for data recovery service (both for my tape AND grandad's tape), but have a feeling they'd want more money than that. Anybody know?
tape drive.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
January 18, 2009.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
This is about what my room looked like after graduating college (5/1997) until I bought my own house (1/1999). I did this weird thing where I moved my bed for the first time I was 9 -- into the middle of the wall it was on. It actually made sense and worked out better for me, but looked worse.
Visible stuff includes:
1) my MCI laptop with docking station (permanently connected to my 36' CRT TV)
2) my college era computer (the taller one, and the first of two machines named "Hades" -- the current "Hades" being my 2007 computer)
3) my 1999 computer (the first of two machines named "Hell" -- the current "Hell" being my 2004 Gateway piece-of-crap in-the-basement computer). And yes, that's an external tape drive on top of it.
4) The big TV. It is from 1977 and only died when faced with the evil wiring in my house, around 2002ish. We turned it on its side and used it as an end-table for a few years after that ("You know you're a redneck when...").
5)The little TV. Still lives today, though it's not hooked up to anything, is in a place nobody would ever use it to watch, and only picks up 1 or 2 channels. I can't believe that's what we watched everything during college on. Such a shame. Back in college, the audio to what I watched was routed to my computer, where a DOS program called Cthugha made it react to audio of the program. Eventually, Carolyn & I set this up on both our computers, and had one on each side of the screen. The screen on the left reacted to the left-speaker audio, and the screen on the right (obviously) reacted to the right screen audio. It was really cool, and ahead of its time.
6) Small TV is on VHS cabinets. I no longer use these. They were a treat to throw down my attic stairs and watch smash into separate wooden pieces. At AE & Meagan's birthday party recently, I saw one of these in somebody's trash as we walked to our car.
More items are visible in the other picture of this set, which shows more of my room.
TV, VHS tape, VHS tapes, cabinets, compressed air, computer, cushion, laptop, monitors, phone, pill bottle, remote control, rug, tape drive, trackball, wires.
Clint's room, Mom and Dad's house, Woodbridge, Virginia.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
Designer: Zhang Jinbiao (ĺĽ é”¦ć ‡)
1979, July
New technology is flowering
Keji xin hua (科技新花)
Call nr.: PC-1979-014 (Private collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net
Continuing our walk around downtown Portland, we dropped in on Powell's technical books, not realizing that the place was famous. They had a lot of books, but even cooler (to me), was a bunch of old computers that they had set up all over the place. Stole this picture, and woulda taken some more, but I'm skittish about photography inside of stores.
PictionID:55545164 - Catalog:14_036705 - Title:GD/Astronautics Facilities Details: Plant 71-Building 4; IBM Computer Lab Date: 05/28/1958 - Filename:14_036705.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Working on making another roll of slides to project onto people, so did a lot of driving around the city looking for interesting textures and stuff.
Did not expect to find an old Commodore tape deck, along with a couple of VIC-20 program cartridges (not pictured).
PictionID:55544562 - Catalog:14_036657 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: ARMA Inertial Guidance; Placing Platform in Cage Date: 10/20/1959 - Filename:14_036657.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:55544549 - Catalog:14_036656 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: ARMA Inertial Guidance; Placing Platform in Cage Date: 10/20/1959 - Filename:14_036656.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:55546732 - Catalog:14_036828 - Title:GD/Astronautics Testing Details: CATE 1082-Test Area Date: 12/17/1969 - Filename:14_036828.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:55544439 - Catalog:14_036647 - Title:Vandenberg AFB Details: Facility Instrumentation; ABRES A-Blockhouse Date: 05/11/1966 - Filename:14_036647.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
prolly one of the last remaining models of this forgoten system
more on the system here www.computer-museum.nl/Electrologica.html
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Computer_Industrie
i'm missing parts from what i can tell if anyone out there has photos of this rare forgoten system plzz share speacialy of the models like to replicate the missing sticker off the computer
and if anyone has models like these don't toss them.... they are just as valuble as the real things to preserve
PictionID:55546744 - Catalog:14_036829 - Title:GD/Astronautics Testing Details: CATE 1082-Test Area Date: 12/17/1969 - Filename:14_036829.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
A reel-to-reel tape drive from a DEC System 2020 (PDP-10) minicomputer. It's a tall rack, and wider than the usual 19-inch width, too. The interface to the computer is Massbus. UPDATE: I have now donated this drive to The National Museum Of Computing at Bletchley Park.
Here it is -- the Administrative Computing system for Macalester circa 1988, just prior to the cutover to CARS.
The cabinet in the foreground strewn over with thick cables and the open notebook is an RP-04 disk drive, a 90 Megabyte drive. To the right, the cab with the window in the top, was a TU80 9-track streaming tape drive. The printer on the right was an LP-14 drum line printer, the small one on the right is the LA-xx (forgot the model). The two terminals are VT100s.
And then there's the CPU cab. The tape drive on the right end of the cabinet is a TU-16 9-track reel tapedrive. The two floppy disk drives above the front panel are RX-01 floppies (those were eight-inch diameter floppies, not 5 1/2 or 3 1/4.
And finally, partially obscured by the cables on the RP04, is the front panel to the CPU, a DEC PDP-11/70 serial number UU3376. At this point in time, we'd cut our ties with DEC field service, so the removed the remote console front panel and re-installed the original front panel which contained a bank of switches you could use to key in a program in binary. Yes, every time I wanted to boot the system, I would flip the switches to match a certain binary pattern, making sure the other dials were set correctly, then press the execute button to start the machine. No control-alt-delete for us...
(Not pictured are the rest of the disks, the RM05 and the two RM03's, though by then I think they had been replaced by disks that more resemble hard drives as we know them, not big old removeable pack drives like the RP04/RM03/RM05's.
(That's 1:30 AM on the clock. We worked nights.)
The tape transport of the DEC TU77, with the doors open. The vacuum guides are on the right. UPDATE: I have now donated this drive to The National Museum Of Computing at Bletchley Park.