graylox,Sweater? Great one, I got a good laugh on that!Also another good guess with the fridge - ice-box - refrigerator gotta keep all that beer cold,lets see what maizey say's.
EDIT:Congrats.. Graylox, just saw the post.
The "WHAT IS IT" Game
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scubaguy (R.I.P.)
MemberPosted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Memberscubaguy - go back to page 14. It is a refrigerator.
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goodgotd - yours is a cartoon cat...maybe Garfield?
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Membergraylox - 3rd row = "The Winner!"
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Membergoodgotd - A fan of Garfield?
And I should have gotten the light bulb. I used to make them but they didn't have those dimples around the base.Posted 16 years ago # -
scubaguy (R.I.P.)
Membermaizeydaze
These are some great sites you find,this is another one I've bookmarked.Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Memberscubaguy - Thanks. I enjoy finding things. I wish I would find a big old bag of cash!
Posted 16 years ago # -
scubaguy (R.I.P.)
Membermaizeydaze
graylox
goodgotd
This is the most fun I've had in the forum sofar and hope it will continue,It's nice to know such a great group of people!!!!!! Now I think I'll get some sleep,at least a couple of hours,so everyone have a great nite and a better morning!!!
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberGoodnight to everyone. I'm going to bed as well.
Scuba - I'm having a blast too.
graylox - I'll send you my mailing address via carrier pigeon in the morning. You can send the money using your preferred method of delivery. Thank you. You are very generous.
funky - Tomorrow is another day.
jinkazama - What is your country?
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
Membergoodgotd - A fan of Garfield?
And I should have gotten the light bulb. I used to make them but they didn't have those dimples around the base.yes, I am a fan of garfield, in fact. And motor driven reefers have compressors inside.
This is one of the new twisty florescent bulbs with an electronic ballast housing at the base.
Hm, that gives me an idea, too. A sneaky one....
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nope, mine isn't a cartoon, though it is usually printed on paper. Usually seen attached to things. the section in the picture is often overlooked by many who see it.
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberI'm putting this up for historic purposes- anyone who knows what it is qualifies as a technical computer historian, and I'll note upfront that this is a macro photo at many times actual size. very few will have seen it, especially in the last 30 years- though I have it in my collection.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberBubby & goodgotd - I'd have never known what the pic of core memory was. Did look it after Bubby identified it. Very interesting read. I cannot imagine the labor that went into fabricating these delicate and intricate woven pieces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core_memory
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goodgotd - Can I ask how you came to own this piece of computer history?Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Memberjinkazama - So I went to bed in the middle of your day. Now I am up again and in a few hours it will be time for you to sleep. I wondered why I only "see" you at certain times of the day. :-)
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberBuBBy, mighta guessed you'd see that one and know about it- here's the full pic: http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=core001oi3.jpg
maizeydaze, In my junior year of high school (1976) in Hayward, California I elected to spend half my school day at the hayward-new haven regional occupation center, taking Data Processing.
That year, the DP center had 6 hollerith punchcard machines, 4 teletypes (yes, real teletypes, including 2 with the paper-tape option) and 2 video terminals linked to the tri-county area's Honeywell 6000 series mainframe- and a DEC PDP-8L minicomputer with a high-speed line printer and 4096 bytes of 6-bit core memory.
The next year, the punchcard units were gone, replaced by 8 S-100 bus 8080 based video-display microcomputers running Altair BASIC interpreter, (and cassette save/load) but the H6000 and DEC remained.
That second year we put together an Altair 8800 and got an IMSAI 8080, as well.
The DP teacher and I became fast friends (and keep in contact to this day), and over the years when equipment was administratively decreed to be destined for the local landfill, he'd contact me- I still have 3 generations of CP/M machines from there, along with 3 or 4 terminals... In fact, my first PC, an 80286-12 with 4 megs of RAM and a 20 meg hdd came from there- and when the PDP was slated to be hauled off, I managed to get the processing unit home.
Alas, due to misfortune, over the years I've lost all but the memory assemblies.
But those I still retain and treasure.
in point of fact, the wiki photo actually appears to be a twin to the pair of modules I have.
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
Memberok, it was probably used as 2048 bytes of 12-bit, but...
the basic reason was I watched and participated in the beginning of the transition from mainframe-minicomputer centralized computing to microprocessor 'personal' computing and managed to preserve some of it as I rode the wave...
Posted 16 years ago # -
copmom
MemberOK.. here's one for you to guess! You can call it mom#1 http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg264/copmom_photo/Babezoomed.jpg
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Membermom#1 - It's your window screen!
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Membermom#1 - Is it a basket/rack in a dishwasher?
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Or is it the door on a microwave oven?Posted 16 years ago #
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