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Core Memory

ClanvidHorse — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:47 -0800

Photographer Mark Richard's very cool pictures of computing equipment: A visual survey of vintage computers. [via]

By: ClanvidHorse

ClanvidHorse — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:41:52 -0800

Click on Core Memory Pictures on the left hand navigation tab to access the pictures.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:47:09 -0800

Very, very cool. There are a couple of pictures of magnetic core memory in the collection, and Wikipedia explains how it works.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:53:04 -0800

These are awesome, thanks!

By: ClanvidHorse

ClanvidHorse — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:54:46 -0800

It's Mark Richards. My humble apologies.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:01:51 -0800

Greate photos, but it's another photography site that makes the back button worthless. APSTMTBBW.

By: nangsta

nangsta — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:14:22 -0800

Thanks, those photos are beautiful. Charles and Ray Eames put together one of the earliest graphic histories of the computer. There is even an awesome, but out of print House of Cards series that contains some amazing images.

By: synaesthetichaze

synaesthetichaze — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:24:10 -0800

Ha, the ancient IBM stuff in there is totally cool. IBM makes their own hardware porn now. BEHOLD the p6. The actual size of the chip is ~your thumbnail.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:35:30 -0800

synaesthetichaze: The actual size of the chip is ~your thumbnail. Okay, hands (or thumbs) up, everyone who clicked the pic link, then shrank it in their browser window to thumbnail size. Just me? Figures.

By: DU

DU — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:44:36 -0800

The TX-0, I believe the first transistorized computer, sits about 100 ft from my office. Pretty sweet.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:13:52 -0800

Beautiful. I'll even forgive the more-or-less completely unnecessary use of flash

By: carter

carter — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:22:37 -0800

Cool stuff! I would have appreciated some human element in some of them, to give an idea of comparative scale.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:02:08 -0800

I just saw this in a store today. I couldn't put it down. gorgeous photos. hardware porn!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:31:59 -0800

Wonderful. I love these photos.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:04:52 -0800

I'm in your core, suckin' your bits! Sorry, couldn't resist. All puns intended.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:41:03 -0800

I was just going to make some sort of flippent 'Look at the stacks on that!' comment... but they are very good indeed.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:55:11 -0800

Dear photographers. Stop using flash.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:15:20 -0800

'Look at the stacks on that!' Heh. 'I'd pop that stack!"