#Bendix

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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):

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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Bendix Model K - Langley AFB - 1949

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Advertisement for Bendix Aviation Corporation precision equipment (1942).

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Enjoying some tunes for Christmas

1947

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The Bendix Building. Los Angeles, May 2024.

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Playing Music on the Oldest Running Computer in America

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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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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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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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@giftober 2024 | Day 10: "Cheering/Clapping" Frank saying "Attagirl/boy" in The Punisher

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That kid right there... The one whose head you got that gun on. You see, I'd do anything for her. Anything.

Marvel's The Punisher, S02E13 "The Whirlwind"

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I’ll write more on this when I get back home. Based on the most recent episode of Daredevil Born Again, I think I’m starting to get why Foggy and Karen weren’t part of this season’s storyline. It looks like the focus of the show is Matt, Fisk, and now Frank figuring out what they want their legacies to be. Matt gave up being Daredevil because he felt he crossed a line, Fisk is trying to repair his image, and now Frank has to deal with the fact that he’s become an idol to the public. It also looks like the writers wanted Matt, Fisk, and Frank to go on this journey of self-discovery on their own. Not only did Foggy and Karen get written out, Fisk is no longer on good terms with Vanessa and Maya Lopez.

Based on where we’re at with the show, I can see the logic behind that. Matt’s always had Foggy and Karen to turn to if he was lost. Frank is a loner, but he did have Karen, Micro, and Amy Bendix. Fisk, even though he’s a magnificent bastard, had Vanessa and Maya. So it looks like the writers wanted to see where they can take the three men if they didn’t have their support.

It fits with the theme of being “born again”. Who are Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk, and Frank Castle if you strip away what made them Daredevil, Kingpin, and The Punisher, respectively? Now, instead of someone telling them what they should be and helping them along the way, the three of them have to figure it out on their own. It’s obviously going to be a messy journey, especially with how emotionally volatile the three of them are. But I feel like that’s the whole point of the show, to see these men either self-destruct or climb out of the hole they’re in and be “born again”.

You can already see how the three of them are without their support. Matt, without Foggy and Karen, is becoming more open to the idea of punishment and retribution (aka he’s becoming like Frank Castle). He also thinks he’s become unworthy of grace since he can’t even bring himself to attend church. Fisk, without Vanessa and Maya, is making a sincere attempt at rehabilitating his image in order to win them back. However, you can already see him start to relapse with him blackmailing the police commissioner. And now, it looks like Frank will have to learn how to live with the fact that he’s the “bad guy”. Because it doesn’t matter how much he justifies his actions, the fact that regular people now want to be him makes him a toxic figure.

Matt’s gonna have to learn how to forgive himself, Fisk is gonna self-destruct since he can’t change his ways, and Frank is gonna have to accept he’s the villain while making it clear that people should instead be aspiring to be like Captain America or Daredevil (the Cap example is from the comics).

TL;DR: DDBA is the superhero equivalent of a mid-life crisis.

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Pete and Rachel

Frank and Amy - The Punisher 2x02

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Giorgia Wigham as Amy Bendix THE PUNISHER SEASON 2 (2019), created by Steve Lightfoot

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Kind of a romcom/action request - do you think you could rewrite or give us your take on the scene where Frank ties Amy to the bed? It’s just always bothered me so much. She’s a teen girl living on the streets, and franks not a moron. He’d know exactly the implication and why she’s scared shitless and I refuse to think he’d be smug or laughing about it, or as callous as he was

i'm really glad you brought this up bc I always thought it was SO out of character for frank, but I never saw anyone else mention it?? like he literally grabs her and throws her on the bed, comes at her with zip ties and duct tape, and acts like a complete asshole?? this girl was literally just attacked, watched this big scary guy rip through a group of professional hitmen like they were nothing, and now she's alone in a motel with him, of course she's freaked the fuck out. and we all know what was going through her head when he forced her on the bed and brought out the zip ties

a lot of things about season 2 pissed me off but this right here is something I will always get heated about bc frank 'girl dad' castle would fucking never and I will die on that hill

so i'm gonna fix it bc apparently I have to do everything around here

headcannon below the cut

what a girl wants starring frank castle & amy bendix

I had to rewatch this scene to refresh my memory and it pissed me off all over again bc out of context it looks so bad but even in context it looks awful

frank "locked the front door of the pawn shop & grabbed a bat bc the guy said he had an inappropriate video of a girl that was barely 12" castle?? francis david "nearly killed the guy who took inappropriate photos of underage girls literally like a few episodes after this" castiglione??? that frank is tying a young girl up to a bed and duct taping her mouth shut???? y'all got me fucked up try again

first of all, she literally helped him pull a bullet out of his ass cheek like thirty seconds before all this. if that's not trauma bonding, I don't know what is

but even before they got to the motel, when they were in the van, they were already bantering like a grumpy dad on a roadtrip with his angsty teenage daughter, like c'mon. and amy had so many opportunities to run if she wanted to. she could've told the clerk at the motel what had happened, or she literally could've ran for it. frank was bleeding out, he was in no shape to chase her down. but he protected her when he didn't have to so I think she felt somewhat safe with him, enough to get the room with him and help him stitch up his ass

AND HE LITERALLY SAYS IN THE NEXT SCENE THEY CAME AFTER A LITTLE GIRL SO I HAD TO GET INVOLVED. HE CALLS HER A LITTLE GIRL !!! okay i'm done i'm not so let's get into what should've happened

so again, obviously she's freaked the fuck out, a bunch of people just tried to murder her, and this grumpy asshole showed up and saved her, but she doesn't know why, or what he wants. if it were me, i'd be suspicious. like okay, you saved me from them, but what do you want?

all frank had to do was talk to her. yes, amy is a handful, but she's literally a kid (I don't know if we ever get her actual age, I think she says several times she's 16, but when I look it up it says between 16-20, so either way she's a young girl) and she doesn't know frank. she's spent her whole life on her own looking out for herself, and she just witnessed a bunch of her friends getting murdered while she hid under a bed, so of course she's not gonna trust this strange scary dude right off the bat

I think if frank had made his intentions clear, it would've gone differently, bc that entire scene is so out of place compared to the rest of the episode and how they interact with each other. like frank involves himself bc she's a kid, and then beth gets hurt in the process, and frank being the vengeful man he is obviously wants to take every single person out involved from top to bottom (just like he did with the kitchen irish, dogs of hell, and mexican cartel. this man does not leave loose ends. everyone gets punished)

so if he had been like hey, fuck those guys for going after a young girl, but also my girl got hurt in the process, so help me out here. help me find the dickheads responsible so that one, I can keep them from coming after you again, but two and most importantly, I can get my revenge for what they did to my woman. I feel like amy would've been like okay he's doing all this for the woman we dropped off at the hospital that he clearly cares about, which means he isn't secretly plotting against me and isn't just another person trying to kill me or steal what I have

frank clearly sees some of his daughter in amy, or at least he sees a glimpse of what lisa could've been if she would've been able to grow up. like there's a lot of moments during season 2 it's implied he sees amy kind of like a daughter. like yeah she's an annoying kid that grates on his nerves and constantly tests his patience, and there's certain moments I think he loses sight of the fact that she is just a kid and he just acts like a complete asshole (like the trailer scene with curtis when she tries to practice her moves with the gun), but then there's so many times he does treat her like he knows she's just a kid (she's literally just a girl)

the entire time he's teaching her how to handle the gun and use it, how he praises her when she does well, how he comforts her when she does have to shoot the gun, how reluctant he is to go along with her plan with the creepy photographer guy, how gentle he is with her in the showdown scene with pilgrim, like he's such a girl dad PLS

so in my professional opinion, it would be more in character for him to sit her down and be like look, these people aren't gonna stop coming after you, I wanna take them down bc now it's personal for me, and in the morning you and I will come up with a plan to figure out who these people are and how to stop them

I think it would've been more in character for him to be like listen up buttercup, you can take off and take your chances by yourself, but I give it 24 hours before you're dead. or, you can help me out and I can keep your ungrateful ass safe until this gets handled, up to you

we could've even had a scene where she's like I can take care of myself bye, leaves, realizes she's in the literal middle of nowhere, weighs the pros and cons of being alone versus being with the guy who took down like thirteen people by himself (I forget how many there actually were but it was a lot), and then show back up at the motel door with a bratty eye roll like alright fine but i'm gonna complain the whole time

would frank have still been bitchy the entire time? absolutely. he's grumpy as it is, and he took a bullet to the ass for a girl that called him rough road to his face (that will never not be funny to me). but would the frank castle I know and love tie a young girl down to the bed and duct tape her mouth?? absolutely the fuck not

in conclusion whoever wrote that specific scene is a fucking weirdo and it's on sight if I ever catch them on the street