Weekly Contest #5 - Old

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JimFox

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We now start Week #5 with the theme of Old. Be creative!

You can post images from Saturday to Friday, Voting begins on Wednesday and lasts until Friday. This is in a desire to not let photos posted on Saturday or Sunday to start gathering votes before an image that is not posted until say Tuesday or Wednesday.

Please read the Rules for our Weekly Contest in the Weekly Contest Rules thread.

Now.... go have fun... and go take some photos! :)

Jim

PS. Make sure you REPLY to this Thread and Post your Contest Photo in THIS Thread. Do not start your own thread with your Photo.
 
BarryHamilton

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This image will serve double duty.
"In 1955 the National Old Line Insurance Building was opened. This seven story structure has been described as “perhaps the finest example of the International Style of architecture in Arkansas.” " And I believe it's on the national register of Historic Places.
This is also one of the 'first light' captures with my new toy. Yes, I splurged on myself (well, my birthday and Christmas are coming up!! :rolleyes:) with the Canon 24mm TS-E lens. Taken this morning @ 9 with the sun behind the building, so I also did a quick blend for the sky.

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AlanLichty

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I thought about "Old" from a lot of different angles and finally settled on the notion of presenting old in the context of our digital world. I had the good fortune of stumbling into the computer era via an on campus job while attending graduate school in the late 70's. It turned out to be a watershed event and I ended up with a front row seat to helping computerize the University of Utah campus.

I watched a lot of layers of technology float by between the late 70's and more recent times and kept a collection of some of the technology as it went by starting with one of the solid core memory modules (16K counting both sides) from a PDP-1 IMLAC display terminal in the back on the right. There are various S-100 BUS memory modules ranging from 16K to 256K. Various flavors of cabling systems that we used are present as well.

Bonus points for any digital pioneers who know what the DEC Flip Chip is at the back on the right.

Old Memories

Old Memories

Literally - this is a collection of old variants of computer RAM dating back to the early 70's.
 
AlanLichty

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Ben Egbert said:
Can't say I can ID the board, but I learned CAD CAM on a Dec 750
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Hint - the card is for DEC UNIBUS. The VAX 11/750 did have a UNIBUS architecture as did the rest of the PDP-11 line and the DEC VAX 11/xxx machines. I played sysadmin and wrote research support software for all of that series of DEC hardware.

BarryHamilton said:
That's some pretty cool stuff, Alan!
But my cell phone prolly has more computing power!:rolleyes:
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It certainly does - and not by a small margin. The original mainframe I worked on had 3 disk drives the size of washing machines - with a total capacity of 1GB. The same as that IBM compact flash drive I used in my 6.1MP Canon D60.
 
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