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This is most of my Semiconductor Devices class from BYU during our recent field trip to the Texas Instruments Chip Fab in Lehi, Utah.
Back in my hands again. This system has spent the last 20 years at my dad's house. I shipped it his way when I started using IBMs at work in college. He wanted to get more familiar with computers.
The Texas Instruments TI 59 was a programmable calculator introduced in 1979. My father did an oilfield engineering degree with this one, i have the dock and printer s well, classic of early technology
Photo of Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell educational spelling toy, taken from TV Cream Toys www.tvcreamtoys.co.uk - more photos, plus write ups, at the web site.
The host of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation television show, Mo Rocca, talks with The Henry Ford Curator of Transportation, Matt Anderson, for an Innovation Nation segment on air traffic control.
The box in front of Rocca and Anderson is a 1969 air traffic control radar scope. This model of computer-integrated scope was one of the first units capable of displaying an airplane’s identification number and altitude directly on the screen. This model of scope was built by Texas Instruments Inc. for the Univac Division of Sperry Rand Corp. This particular scope was used at Detroit Metro Airport from 1970 to 2001.
The plane in the background is a 1928 4AT-B Ford Trimotor. The Trimotor was a passenger and cargo aircraft.The first Trimotor flew in 1926. The capabilities of the aircraft, the Ford name, and a Ford advertising campaign helped popularize travel by air. The Trimotor was designed by William Bushnell Stout and built by the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company. The skin was corrugated aluminum alloy. The aircraft was powered by one Wright Cyclone and two Wright Whirlwind engines.
This particular Ford Trimotor, “Floyd Bennett”, was the first aircraft to fly over the South Pole. This occurred in 1929 as part of Richard E. Byrd’s expedition. Byrd named the plane after the pilot of his earlier North Pole flight, who had died a few months before the South Pole flight. Edsel Ford was a sponsor of the South Pole flight and donated the Trimotor to the expedition. After the flight, the aircraft was left in Antarctica for five years. After it was returned to the United States, Edsel Ford donated it to the Henry Ford Museum.
Seen at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo by scattered1.
Tomorrow I´ll now if I´m gonna study math all summer for the re-exam - well I´ll know if I´m totally screwed, that is :-)
Please cross your fingers for me between 8.45-15.00!
Photo of Texas Instruments' Speak & Maths (UK version) educational toy, taken from TV Cream Toys www.tvcreamtoys.co.uk - more photos, plus write ups, at the web site.
The cover of the booklet for another of my old TI99/4A games.
From the '80s, when the graphics promoting the game were better than those in the game.
Munchman was a Pac-Man knock-off; no better, no worse. It was alright.
This is a hex buffer and driver with open-drain outputs made by Texas Instruments.
So far, this is one of my favourite dies because I was not expecting much from this chip since it is made by Texas Instruments and their chips tend to have metal layers I cannot remove yet. It is also one of the best results I've ever gotten with my stitching software (RMS of 1.63). This chip is very tiny, about a millimetre wide / long.
Based on the inscription in the bottom left it appears to have been designed in 1994. There are also inscriptions in the top left and bottom left corners. The top left reads "LVC07 B". I am not sure if the V is a U or if the 0 is an O. The bottom right has the TI logo (upside down) which I recognize from some other chips I've seen before.
Camera: Pixel 2XL
Number of Images: 20
Overlap: 65%
Microscope Objective: 10X
Microscope Eyepiece: 10X
Camera Zoom: 3X (Prevents distortion)
Grid Used: 3x3 (Panning Aid)
Capture Motion: Serpentine
Stitching Software: Autopano Giga
Bought new from a parts distributor. Was curious to see the differences between 2-Input and 3-Input gates.
I also bought 4-Input Gates and some other gate types but TI seems to have switched to a new way of making these chips and they are much much smaller and completely covered in metal, so I can't do anything with them.
Camera: SONY A6000
Panorama Y Axis: 3 Images
Panorama X Axis: 4 Images
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 0.5"
Light Source: Internal Lamp
DIC: Yes
Microscope Objective: 10X
Stitching Software: PTGui
Other Software: GIMP for cropping
There I was, at the Richardson, TX, campus of Texas Instruments. I was an employee, this was a weekday, I was at work, and this is how we dressed back then. LOL!
When I was in Secondary 5, this solar-powered TI-37 was my trusty companion. It's now my daughter's, some 30 years later.
To replenish the contents of the Gray-E box, I added a Sony “Sports” Walkman model F63/F73 (which I’ve previously documented here), a pair of Thomas & Betts/Ansley female to female DB25 ribbon cables, the power supply board from an Ehman Engineering hard drive case, the digital controller board from a Bosch dishwasher, and a Texas Instruments SR-40 calculator from the late 70s.
It pretty much fired right up. The 1 key didn't work and the 2 key was intermittent but that was it, and they were fixable.
Yep, she's already addicted to TI Invaders!
At the top is the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Altair 8800, a personal computer with keyboard and monitor, dating from about 1975. The company sold only the basic processor kit. Owners addd keyboards, monitors and other accessories.
On the bottom left is a camera dating from the 1880's. George Eastman revolutionized photography with the introduction of the Kodak. Owners mailed the camera to Eastman Company to have their pictures developed and printed, and the camera reloaded.
On the bottom center is a radio dating from 1954. American firms Texas Instruments and IDEA devleoped the Regency TR-1, the world's first commercially available transistor radio. It helped popularize another recent invention--rock and roll music.
On the bottom right is a telegraph key, dating from around 1844. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail likely used this transmitter at the 1844 official opening of their electric telegraph line. For the first time people could communicate almost instantly over long distances.
The National Museum of American History (NMAH), administered by the Smithsonian Institute, collects, preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. The museum, which first opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology, is located on the National Mall in one of the last structures designed by McKim, Mead & White. It was renamed in 1980, and closed for a 2-year, $85 million renovation by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP from 2006 to 2008.
The Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazines, was established in 1846. Although concentrated in Washington DC, its collection of over 136 million items is spread through 19 museums, a zoo, and nine research centers from New York to Panama.
This chip is made by Texas Instruments and contains four 2-Input Positive-NAND Gates. Judging by the "84" on the middle left side, it appears to have been designed in 1984.
Camera: SONY A6000
Number of Images: 12
Panorama Y Axis: 4 Images
Panorama X Axis: 3 Images
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/160"
Light Source: LED in Eyepiece
Overlap: 50%
Microscope Objective: 10X
Microscope Eyepiece: DSLR Mount
Grid Used: 4x4 (Panning Movement Aid)
Capture Motion: ZigZag
Stitching Software: Autopano Giga
Other Software: GIMP for white balancing and sharpening.
Image Type: PNG
Image Scale: 100%
Week 44 - Out of the Box
A little bit of nostalgia. This equipment probably hasn't seen the light of day in more than 30 years. I quite literally took it "out of the box" to see if it was as I remembered. The original packaging is the backdrop in the image.
And there it was in all of its 16 bit glory, my first exposure to the world of computing. The Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. With 16K of RAM and a 192 X 256 16 color graphics output (monitor not included) it was quite the early 80's home computing powerhouse. I mean it would have to be if you had Bill Cosby as an endorser! That man didn't throw his celebrity behind any old product now did he?
Pudding pops.
Floppy disks? Who needs them when you can house your data on the included tape cassette storage system! It could load your home budget spreadsheet in just under 10 minutes! Amazing!
Have kids? They'll love the TI 99/4a as much as you do with games like "Hunt the Wumpus" and the pirate-themed game "Adventure!" Granted it's a text based game and you never actually get to SEE any pirates, but your children will be riveted for hours by thrilling game play such as:
You are standing in room with a stick on the floor. There is a door to the East.
GET STICK
You are now holding a stick.
HEAD EAST
You are now in front of a door.
OPEN DOOR
There is a pirate behind the door and he has stabbed you with his cutlass.
For the Lancaster County Photography Meetup's 52 Week Project.
I'd always wished we'd gotten a Commodore 64, or even a VIC-20, but no, in 1983, we got one of these, the TI99/4A. It had low memory, its games were sucky, except the Atari-soft ones. The joysticks were crap; had to upgrade to better ones.
Scan from 99'er Home Computer Magazine, November 1983.
Camera: SONY A6000
Number of Images: 15
Panorama Y Axis: 3 Images
Panorama X Axis: 5 Images
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 0.4"
Light Source: Internal Metallurgical Lamp
DIC: Yes
Overlap: 50%
Microscope Objective: 10X
Grid Used: 4x4 (Panning Movement Aid)
Capture Motion: ZigZag
Stitching Software: Autopano Giga
Other Software: GIMP for sharpening, white balancing and brightness adjustment.
Image Type: PNG
The MAN - the MYTH - the LEGEND - John W. Young - STS-9.
Official NASA description: Astronaut John W. Young, Crew Commander, takes notes at the Commander's Station on the flight deck of Columbia. The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) among the forward panels, displays the orbiter's position in relation to the Earth on its monitor.
Along with there being a CRT, doesn't that look like a Texas Instruments calculator below John's right hand?
Apparently, it's an HP-41:
hpinspace.wordpress.com/category/hp-41/
hpinspace.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/hp-41-series-and-the-s...
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/calculator-hand-hel...
Appropriately enough, this photo is also at the following:
www.johnwyoung.org/sts9/enlarge-sts9/10061671.htm
Along with Owen Garriott, this was to be John's last spaceflight.
This one was 16 bits before home users had any clue what that meant. By the time they realised, it no longer mattered, and no-one cared.
Complete with the famous TI Extended BASIC module (cartridge), and the equally famous TI Speech Synthesizer as featured in ‘Speak and Spell’ (and by extension, the movie E.T.)
This machine had pretty decent hardware, but nowhere near enough memory to speak of: 256 bytes of RAM (part of the CPU) and 16k of video RAM. Everything was stored on the video RAM when the graphics chip wasn't looking, something that made it seriously slow until you gave up and got a memory expansion box.
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