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Post by DubiousMonkey on Jun 21, 2006 9:22:10 GMT -5
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Post by UrbStylee on Jun 21, 2006 10:06:46 GMT -5
sure i'll take one... and ride it like a moped.
Urbel
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Post by Chu-Chu on Jun 21, 2006 10:27:44 GMT -5
never buy new technology without it being proven first... Otherwise you run into way too many defects and get way too pissed off... too much stressorz as it is for me to buy potentially defective new technology. Although.... I do want this... www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/*drool* ~Chu |
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Post by TEX on Jun 21, 2006 11:46:37 GMT -5
great, now all we have to do is get some cooling system to get the CPU down to 4 and a half degrees above abosolute zero
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Post by B8 on Jun 21, 2006 20:00:49 GMT -5
Ooooh almost to green light speed.
Scottie to Captain Kirk:
"I'm pushing the engines but they kinna tale any more."
I want a green light speed computer and the heck with any intermediate steps. That was an old joke back in the 1970's.
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Post by Jonus on Jun 22, 2006 15:13:48 GMT -5
I want one of those computers that took up an entire room from the 1970's!
Oh and I want an optimus keyboard badly. Chu and I found those while looking at R & D stuff one day.
Freaking sweet!
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Post by B8 on Jun 22, 2006 17:41:16 GMT -5
Those 1970's computers that took up a whole room were the size of a house. The foot print was more like 40 feet by 40 feet. That did not include the air conditioning equipment, the key punch room, the tape storage room, the power vault, nor the offices for the people to monitor and run all of that junk.
So it would not do you any good as the tapes are all oxidized by now. The core memory is rusty. The connections are bad. So any one that wants that stuff is welcome to it.
If I had one I would want to p*** on it and watch it rust. Those old beasts were slow. All the time that I waited for them was...
Edited for time and space by author.
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Post by DubiousMonkey on Jun 25, 2006 12:39:19 GMT -5
I might want one of those old rusty computers because audiophiles would want the vacuum tubes. Might still be good even after this long - if they are not any good, I'd take the thing apart ad scrap it for precious metals - maybe I could burn the PCB and get cancer while I'm at it?
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Post by Mr. Sassy Pants on Jun 25, 2006 14:00:32 GMT -5
....imagine......if you would.....a room sized computer...using todays tech....<.<
that would be....crazy...=P
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Post by TEX on Jun 25, 2006 14:32:24 GMT -5
Just think about i... *head explodes at the supreme awesomeness it*
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Post by B8 on Jun 25, 2006 18:21:27 GMT -5
You want vacuum tubes? Talk to me.
Oh by the way the tubes were gone from computers by the very early 1960's. Like 1961 they were gone. Most of those comps were scrapped long ago, they were the size of entire buildings. You almost built the building with the computer design in hand around the dumb machine. I had several plug in modules from those old beasts, and those tubes were not useful for analog purposes. All triodes and no real gain to them. They were thermally noisy and designed for reliability not for analog use.
You would want nuvistors if anything to use now. More later
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Post by TEX on Jul 5, 2006 3:04:18 GMT -5
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Post by Chim on Jul 5, 2006 13:52:43 GMT -5
 also.... that article was for a transistor...... not a processor. sure. you can run data through the transistor at 500ghz... woopity doo. too bad it can't be processed faster than 3-4ghz.... =P the data would run through there so fast. it'd be thinking MAN! that was quick.... and then it'd run into a trillion other pieces of data waiting to be processed. think of the lines... lines.... lines..... |
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Post by Legendary_Apu on Jul 6, 2006 22:35:52 GMT -5
im allready thinking of those lines....lines..lines...lol
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Post by TEX on Jul 8, 2006 3:50:59 GMT -5
not to mention what the temp has to be when you put an actual load on it!!! Intels 3.4's take at least an additional 2-4 fans to run at same temp as amd 2.6's. Yet they still cannot outperform...
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also.... that article was for a transistor...... not a processor. sure. you can run data through the transistor at 500ghz... woopity doo. too bad it can't be processed faster than 3-4ghz.... =P
