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gaykarstaagforever · 1 year ago
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The Bendix G-15 from 1956, the world's first "personal computer." One of these cabinets weighed a literal 1000 lbs. and cost half a million dollars in today's money. Or you could rent it for the equivalent of $17,000 a month.
It was numeric only, you had to "talk" to it via a typewriter, and when you turned it off it 'forgot' everything. It used 'drum memory,' which used the same rust-covered-spinning-magnetic-thing technology all hard drives would continue to use until flash memory became a thing. But in the Bendix it looked something like this (one from a slightly earlier computer):
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This computer is so old no one seems to have figured out what 'bits' it is. All I know is that drum thing "holds 2,160 words of twenty-nine bits." It can also do basic math problems in 270 microseconds. ...Which sounds fast, but that means it can do 2+2=4 in 27 thousandths of a second. Which is probably exactly how long it took your stupid brain to do that. For slightly more complex math, hiring a human mathematician at this time would be both cheaper and easier than dealing with this computer.
This is a "vacuum tube / diode analog architecture" computer, and it already had some kind of OS that meant you didn't have to know machine code? But that slowed it down even more...?
I have absolutely no idea how analog computers worked, or how anyone used one. There are tape decks on this thing, and it is plugged into a typewriter. Like I get the digital 1 and 0 thing, but I have no concept how you make light bulbs and blobs of germanium do that electronically.
But someone did, and this eventually led to you streaming Now That's What I Call Music! No. 86 on a Samsung phone.
So obviously all of this was a good idea...
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nocternalrandomness · 10 months ago
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Bendix Model K - Langley AFB - 1949
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vintagepromotions · 2 years ago
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Advertisement for Bendix Aviation Corporation precision equipment (1942).
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wilsonneate · 8 months ago
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The Bendix Building. Los Angeles, May 2024.
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misforgotten2 · 2 years ago
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“Don’t bother dear, I died in my sleep last night. WoooOO000oo"
Parents Magazine   November 1945
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thecoparoom · 2 hours ago
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Enjoying some tunes for Christmas
1947
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djpicsathon · 7 months ago
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Molière seez: Geske o Toddan undrar när Sandy Johansen ska ta sig samman o göra en 720 på RS2:an med coaster.
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travsd · 9 months ago
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For International Taxi Driver's Day: On "The Taxi Boys"
March 22, by some mysterious decree, has been designated International Taxi Drivers Day, the ideal time, it would appear, to introduce Hal Roach’s “Taxi Boys” comedies. The Taxi Boys were a late attempt to replicate the successes Roach had had with such series as Our Gang (the Little Rascals), The Boy Friends, and the Hal Roach All-Stars, which had produced the team of Laurel and Hardy. The…
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trucenz · 10 months ago
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VISA RENEWAL AND TOILET MISHAPS
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digitalposterarchive · 2 years ago
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1952 Here's how Bendix speeds the progress of Aviation
Source: Time Magazine
Published at:  https://propadv.com/car-accessories-ad-and-poster-collection/bendix-ad-and-poster-collection/
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xxdrixx · 2 months ago
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@giftober 2024 | Day 10: "Cheering/Clapping" Frank saying "Attagirl/boy" in The Punisher
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darlingshane · 1 month ago
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The Punisher 2.01 // Gilmore Girls 3.19
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buckyhoney · 2 years ago
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these three are the definition of the “fuck around and find out” parenting when it comes to their found children 💀
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thewingedchild · 2 years ago
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kevinfeiges · 3 months ago
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Giorgia Wigham as Amy Bendix THE PUNISHER SEASON 2 (2019), created by Steve Lightfoot
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wigglybug · 7 months ago
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a little drawing for @thedustyleaves !! so thoroughly enjoyed drawing these guys i was honestly sad when i finished lol!!!
you can read Bellum Pulchrum here!!
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