Honest? Then, if I were you, I'd try to be a bit less consensual from time to time. I got plenty of downvotes. I would hope even pg get his share, that would show sane critical thinking.
That would have been really cool, and a true hackers machine, but I imagine that the days when LISP needs (or benefits from) custom hardware are long gone.
[one of the first computer models I ever wrote for - a three address machine: first a source operand, second destination, third address of next instruction. The memory was a rotating drum]
http://imgur.com/VuSH2j5
Haha, epic response.
And the shiny new server replacing it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ibm_pc_51...
My guess was this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Com...
What about http://imgur.com/BOaFPtn
So compact yet so powerful.
I was thinking one of these: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Bundesarc...
Ah the good old days, when computers were so simple and yet so mysterious and exciting at the same time.
I don't know, I still find them exciting -- although PC hardware isn't as fun as it used to be.
I call foul. This doesn't even look like it's powered up.
Edit: Wow. 3.5 years on HN and my first down-voted post. I guess I should have added a sarcasm tag or stick with keeping comments "safe".
> 3.5 years on HN and my first down-voted post
Honest? Then, if I were you, I'd try to be a bit less consensual from time to time. I got plenty of downvotes. I would hope even pg get his share, that would show sane critical thinking.
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Impressive.
Love the symmetry of the photo...triangle. (I suspect with the orange background that it was taken at the YC office? http://m.inc.com/?incid=96)
I would have thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LISP_machine.jpg
That would have been really cool, and a true hackers machine, but I imagine that the days when LISP needs (or benefits from) custom hardware are long gone.
Not one of these?
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-bendix-g15.jpg
[one of the first computer models I ever wrote for - a three address machine: first a source operand, second destination, third address of next instruction. The memory was a rotating drum]
Mel?