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Big, Beautiful Boxes From Computer History
Slatterz writes "We might sometimes complain about the limitations of today's technology, but there's nothing like seeing photos of a 27Kg hard drive with a capacity of 5MB to put things into perspective. PC Authority has toured the Computer History Museum in California, and has posted these fascinating photos, including monster 27Kg and 60Kg drives, and a SAGE air-defense system. Each SAGE housed an A/N FSQ-7 computer, which had around 60,000 vacuum tubes. IBM constructed the hardware, and each computer occupied a huge amount of space. From its completion in 1954 it analyzed radar data in real-time, to provide a complete picture of US Airspace during the cold war. Other interesting photos and trivia include some giant early IBM disc platters, and pics of a curvaceous Cray-1 supercomputer, built in 1972. It was the fastest machine in the world until 1977 and an icon for decades. It cost a mere $6 million, and could perform at 160MFLOPS — which your phone can now comfortably manage."
I wonder how many of these magnificent machines were built by AFRICANS?
Oh, wait...
I forget - "We're all the same", and it's "racist" to even question the intelligence of blacks, isn't it.
Let's just sit back and watch our countries turn into crime ridden, third world hellholes. Wouldn't want to be called a "racist", would we... How 'courageous' of you all. Aren't you just so "caring" and "kind", that you'll leave your own children to fight the war YOU caused - the civil war that is coming to YOUR country because of the liberal elite, who have flooded your once safe, happy and beautiful countries with all the dregs of the third world.