Computer and computer parts from the past (pictures)

[Giaguara]

First picture of the series of computer history (please add more to the thread)....

Hard disk drive with 5 MB storage in 1956.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer
with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.

[Giaguara]

And at some point (1970s) the hard drives had already got much smaller... :D

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/hard_drive.jpg

This was for a 30 MB drive...

[ora]

Check this satirical video about communication at CERN made in 1974. The presenter is a friend of mine and they were supposed to be making a serious video but they ended up doing this instead. Some good old tech too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymJC9KkWlg

EDIT - the guy checking computation by hand was a genuine savant style genius, he apparently worked out soemthing like the 17th root of a 250 digit number on a blackboard in front of his colleagues once.

[Doctor X]

The Idiots at YouTube . . . I know . . . redundant . . . have removed your audio for "copyright."

--J.D.

P.S. But if yo follow the annoying link to the "original" you will get it.

[Giaguara]

And a classic from the past (at least for anyone who's looked at Newton developer CDs) - modemino (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teW7a8lOwYY) - too much time in the hands and graphical video editing effects from the past. I wouldn't mind trying that at home but considering how impossible even finding a plain Connection Kit was.. not going to happen :D

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I'm still searching for that "annoying link"... adonde esta?

[Satcomer]

How about the Eniac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC)?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Eniac.jpg/785px-Eniac.jpg

[ora]

Sadly that was the only copy i knew of, it was uploaded by the guy that filmed it but I think they must have used a pop track as part of the soundtrack. :(

[icemanjc]

How about the Eniac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC)?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Eniac.jpg/785px-Eniac.jpg

I remember learning about that in the movie/tv series The Machine
That Changed The World.

[Satcomer]

I remember learning about that in the movie/tv series The Machine
That Changed The World.

I saw that too. :rolleyes:

[Doctor X]

http://www.outskirtsmedia.co.uk/html/INDEX/GRAPHIC/roman_tech/RomanAbacusRecon.jpg

--J.D.

[icemanjc]

http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T389/DifferenceEngine.jpg
The Difference Engine.

[g/re/p]

http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq266/reaper8/kd14.jpg