Thinking about Minority Report and how the computers/storage devices shown in the movie scaled so cleanly. Maybe this is the opportunity for HP to write a UI like that around WebOS. Make it so all three devices use the same desktop and allow you to seamlessly move data and applications between them.
if we *really* needed to keep someone alive for what they had in their brains, we could, even if they were mostly missing a body.
Not in evidence. The fact that the dog and the body were animate in no way demonstrates that if you did it with a human they'd be in any fashion rational or coherent.
Maybe not but it'd be interesting to try, don't you think? How about taking the brain out entirely and feeding it artificial nutrients? I reckon you could keep it alive on a few watts.
I built a two transistor FM transmitter some time in the late '80s. To test it I left it in my young sisters bed room when my mother was reading her a story. I then got into my car and drove up the road listening to the signal. Two kilometres away I decided it was working a little bit too well so I turned right back and switched it off. I still have it here for emergencies or whatever.
I reckon I could have built it into eight cubic centimetres or so in 1970. And if you took the components out of their packages and had a watch/jewlry maker assemble it you could probably get it into one CC. My dad built radio controlled model aircraft in the 1950s but they were one channel and he had to build a lot of the gear himself.
I read once that the CIA dropped masses of little listening devices into the Vietnamese jungle as kind of a remote sensing system. I assume they monitored the system with receivers on relatively low flying aircraft.
but then getting a decent VT emulator running was very difficult
Ha! a former co-worker of mine (he could be reading) wrote a VT compatible emulator for windows. He went by the username "lec" so his emulator was called LECTerm.
Yeah that had me puzzled for a bit. The IT department where I used to work would stick bar codes on to a VT240 because it had two parts and must be a computer, but they left a VT320 alone because that was just a "monitor". My hands ache at the thought of a VT100. Horrible keyboard.
Huh? When did IBM ever run OS/2 on anything other than PCs?
Maybe I was too liberal with the term "minicomputer". I was referring to the high end PC hardware which OS/2 was deployed on to function as a local or department level server.
I really hope that's not a reference to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I think a lot of people would take offence at Woz being described as intellectually subnormal (a 'chickenhead' in the book's parlance).
JF had to be good for Tyrell to play chess with him. I reckon that while Tyrell had vision, up there in his pyramid, playing with toys like Rachel, he needed JF to build things, hence the chess games as a way of keeping in touch.
Yes I have a DEC 3000 alpha server here. One of these days I want to find out if it really will make a good boat anchor. One thing I remember about the PDP 11/84s is that the electronics vastly outlasted the rubber padding inside the top cover of the CPU box. The rubber turned to dust and fell on to the backplane. This was okay until you re-seated a card, then the dust fell into the slots and you had to vacuum the whole thing out.
I have fond memories of lying prone under an 11/84 with a wire wrap tool in my hand trying to get the interrupt logic correct for a CSCI card. Of course I pulled out the leg extensions on the rack first. I'm not suicidal or anything.
No but they had kind of a high end PC running OS/2 as a server. Notes at my site used AIX as the main server with this smaller OS/2 boxes scattered around. Wide area networks then weren't what they are now.
and so on. Its the bus address and interrupt vectors for DZ11 MUX cards at my last job. Sorry, its just burned into my brain and I couldn't resist. On the PDP you could pretty much assume that a number would be octal, if it had anything to do with the hardware. If a card failed and brought the CPU down the register dump would almost always give you the bus address of the card.
Well into the 1990s the IBM minicomputer ran OS/2. It was okay as a department level server. DEC also had failures at the low end. There was the MicroVAX and a micro VMS to go along with it, but technology caught up too fast so cut down systems were soon not required.
I have been looking around for a first person lunar lander but so far no such luck. I installed a simple 2D lunar lander game from the android marker but its not as good as that 1969 effort.
If anybody is interested there is a spot in Lysterfield Lake Park which seems to have been used for aboriginal ceremonies of some sort. The first time I found it they had firewood stacked up and wood for a little shelter. There were strange little piles of stones. Its on bare stone right at the top of a hill and quite close to the Boys Farm track. Since I was first there it has been cleared out by a fire. One time at that location a really big kangaroo came out of the bush at me, hopped past and disappeared. Obviously felt that it owned the place and I didn't.
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Thinking about Minority Report and how the computers/storage devices shown in the movie scaled so cleanly. Maybe this is the opportunity for HP to write a UI like that around WebOS. Make it so all three devices use the same desktop and allow you to seamlessly move data and applications between them.
Maybe its just that when you have played guitar hero to one song, you have played'em all.
Not in evidence. The fact that the dog and the body were animate in no way demonstrates that if you did it with a human they'd be in any fashion rational or coherent.
Maybe not but it'd be interesting to try, don't you think? How about taking the brain out entirely and feeding it artificial nutrients? I reckon you could keep it alive on a few watts.
I am pretty sure I read that story too, or a similar one. Did it involve telepresence?
Yes. Future entomologists will wonder what 21st century people meant when they talked about "dragonflies"
You could blow them away with a fan. Nobody tried that on dune.
I built a two transistor FM transmitter some time in the late '80s. To test it I left it in my young sisters bed room when my mother was reading her a story. I then got into my car and drove up the road listening to the signal. Two kilometres away I decided it was working a little bit too well so I turned right back and switched it off. I still have it here for emergencies or whatever.
I reckon I could have built it into eight cubic centimetres or so in 1970. And if you took the components out of their packages and had a watch/jewlry maker assemble it you could probably get it into one CC. My dad built radio controlled model aircraft in the 1950s but they were one channel and he had to build a lot of the gear himself.
I read once that the CIA dropped masses of little listening devices into the Vietnamese jungle as kind of a remote sensing system. I assume they monitored the system with receivers on relatively low flying aircraft.
but then getting a decent VT emulator running was very difficult
Ha! a former co-worker of mine (he could be reading) wrote a VT compatible emulator for windows. He went by the username "lec" so his emulator was called LECTerm.
Yeah that had me puzzled for a bit. The IT department where I used to work would stick bar codes on to a VT240 because it had two parts and must be a computer, but they left a VT320 alone because that was just a "monitor". My hands ache at the thought of a VT100. Horrible keyboard.
Well into the 1990s the IBM minicomputer ran OS/2
Huh? When did IBM ever run OS/2 on anything other than PCs?
Maybe I was too liberal with the term "minicomputer". I was referring to the high end PC hardware which OS/2 was deployed on to function as a local or department level server.
I really hope that's not a reference to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I think a lot of people would take offence at Woz being described as intellectually subnormal (a 'chickenhead' in the book's parlance).
JF had to be good for Tyrell to play chess with him. I reckon that while Tyrell had vision, up there in his pyramid, playing with toys like Rachel, he needed JF to build things, hence the chess games as a way of keeping in touch.
Yes I have a DEC 3000 alpha server here. One of these days I want to find out if it really will make a good boat anchor. One thing I remember about the PDP 11/84s is that the electronics vastly outlasted the rubber padding inside the top cover of the CPU box. The rubber turned to dust and fell on to the backplane. This was okay until you re-seated a card, then the dust fell into the slots and you had to vacuum the whole thing out.
I have fond memories of lying prone under an 11/84 with a wire wrap tool in my hand trying to get the interrupt logic correct for a CSCI card. Of course I pulled out the leg extensions on the rack first. I'm not suicidal or anything.
No but they had kind of a high end PC running OS/2 as a server. Notes at my site used AIX as the main server with this smaller OS/2 boxes scattered around. Wide area networks then weren't what they are now.
160010 400
160020 410
160030 420
160040 430
160050 440
160060 450
160070 460
160100 470
160110 500
and so on. Its the bus address and interrupt vectors for DZ11 MUX cards at my last job. Sorry, its just burned into my brain and I couldn't resist. On the PDP you could pretty much assume that a number would be octal, if it had anything to do with the hardware. If a card failed and brought the CPU down the register dump would almost always give you the bus address of the card.
I thought that was the Itanium.
Well into the 1990s the IBM minicomputer ran OS/2. It was okay as a department level server. DEC also had failures at the low end. There was the MicroVAX and a micro VMS to go along with it, but technology caught up too fast so cut down systems were soon not required.
I have been looking around for a first person lunar lander but so far no such luck. I installed a simple 2D lunar lander game from the android marker but its not as good as that 1969 effort.
84 or as I prefer to say it, 124.
Thats where his nickname came from, because the team were on a train which stopped there one day.
I didn't mean to imply that this was an historical site, more that it is in active use.
I wonder if they remembered to correct for precession of the equinox.
I am curious to see how you get on. Be sure to get back to me in another 25 years with your observations.
If anybody is interested there is a spot in Lysterfield Lake Park which seems to have been used for aboriginal ceremonies of some sort. The first time I found it they had firewood stacked up and wood for a little shelter. There were strange little piles of stones. Its on bare stone right at the top of a hill and quite close to the Boys Farm track. Since I was first there it has been cleared out by a fire. One time at that location a really big kangaroo came out of the bush at me, hopped past and disappeared. Obviously felt that it owned the place and I didn't.