And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Gee what a boon to mankind. Now we got smartphones with a 1,000 times the power at 150th the price so we can watch Netflix while sitting in a 100 car line waiting for gas because someone used a later model microcircuit computer that cost $600 to wipe out the Colonial pipe line. We've come a long way baby.
John Prine had the answer in Spanish Pipedream: "Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, move to the country, build you a home. Plant a little garden, raise a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own."
physical package looks just like what i used in the army in 68. it's name was FADAC (field artillery digital/analetic computer). i was in the fire direction control part of the artillery research and development unit at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. the display used "nixie lights". the photo shows one half of the unit i used. they were married, back to back. i watched as a tech opened one up to repair it onsite. we had 3 or 4 units. it also had the supplemental paper tape input/output, which i never used. i was entering via keyboard the type of guns, coordinates of guns, coordinates of target, adjustments of FO (forward observer). the output would be the settings of the guns to tell to the gunners (azmith and declination and charge size). its unit level of intention was Battalion level. its use was intended to supplement and eventually replace the use of "slip sticks). similar to slide log calculator. with a set for each gun type. all of this evolved into hand held tablets at the battery level (lowest level of control) sometime in the future, long after i was out of the army.
Gee what a boon to mankind. Now we got smartphones with a 1,000 times the power at 150th the price so we can watch Netflix while sitting in a 100 car line waiting for gas because someone used a later model microcircuit computer that cost $600 to wipe out the Colonial pipe line. We've come a long way baby.
ReplyDeleteThat pretty much sums it up.
DeleteI'm so old...
ReplyDeleteUsed to have a PDP-11 on my desk next to an ASR-33 teletype running paper tapes. And yes, there was a Sperry.
Draws less than 250w!
ReplyDeleteI’m gonna have to google that ... on my Apple watch.
ReplyDeleteGee...wonder if that 6000 hr. MTBF means:
ReplyDeleteMean Time Before Failure or FIRE!
Don't know, but we're cooking with coal, now, baby!
ReplyDeleteDon't forget, that's $35K in 1970's money. So it's about $239,000 in 2021.
ReplyDeleteGreat point!
DeleteGood job Wookie. I was thinking the same thing. Almost real money in the 70's, monopoly money now...
DeleteJohn Prine had the answer in Spanish Pipedream: "Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, move to the country, build you a home. Plant a little garden, raise a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own."
ReplyDeletephysical package looks just like what i used in the army in 68. it's name was FADAC (field artillery digital/analetic computer). i was in the fire direction control part of the artillery research and development unit at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. the display used "nixie lights". the photo shows one half of the unit i used. they were married, back to back. i watched as a tech opened one up to repair it onsite. we had 3 or 4 units. it also had the supplemental paper tape input/output, which i never used. i was entering via keyboard the type of guns, coordinates of guns, coordinates of target, adjustments of FO (forward observer). the output would be the settings of the guns to tell to the gunners (azmith and declination and charge size). its unit level of intention was Battalion level. its use was intended to supplement and eventually replace the use of "slip sticks). similar to slide log calculator. with a set for each gun type. all of this evolved into hand held tablets at the battery level (lowest level of control) sometime in the future, long after i was out of the army.
ReplyDeleteYou ever camp or hike around the refuge or Mt. Scott?
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