If we were the size of microrobes, this might be how modern computers looks in their point of view





Regardless, this absolutely fascinates me how far we've come.


Story can be found here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/world-oldest-original-working-digital-computer-gets-reboot-215128890.html

11/21/2012 8:45:58 PM

ban this mother fucker. we don't need another merbig.

11/21/2012 9:52:10 PM

^Damn dude. You've got issues.

11/22/2012 1:33:39 AM

Saw this earlier, and I thought it was amazing.


This computer is based around Dekatron tubes. I found and played with a couple way back in the day (they're perhaps about the rarest vintage computing swag there is) and the idea of an entire system built around them is mind boggling. Dekatron tubes count from 1 to 10, so this machine uses decimal mathematics rather than binary . . . . it does multiplication and division the same way we would on paper. How cool is that?

11/22/2012 2:34:31 AM

Dekatrons in action

11/22/2012 4:18:44 AM

^^^^ ?

11/22/2012 9:54:02 AM