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IT Pornography: Is Getting It All Obscene?
Lashiec:
Isn't that guy in the photo the same Steve Porcaro?
Ralf Maximus:
Heheheheh... I thought it was an old modem or something.
app103:
It looks like a giant one of these:
;D
Edvard:
It looks like a giant one of these:
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I had one of those for my 9th birthday... :warm fuzzy:
I got one for my son too and he's not as interested, although we have a few laughs with the sound effect circuits you can make.
As one who is versed in repairing vintage sound effects, I can tell you those old synths are every bit as impressive as, say, a 682-node supercluster of DEC alphas.
Or heck, even a Cray-1
Ralf Maximus:
Oooh, Cray. In a past life I worked for a NASA contractor, and got to visit the computing center at JSC (Building 40, IIRC). They had a Cray XMP at the time... 1990? It was still a powerful beast; they used a "regular" IBM mainframe as the front end for it.
What'd they use it for? Among other things, real-time airflow simulation of the shuttle's wing surfaces.
Whole thing is probably less powerful than the machine on my desk now...
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