Let's have a TECHNOLOGY thread
I'm writing a piece about the IBM 7090, the first commercially viable, fully transistorized computing system.
I've been reading through the reference manual and it's fantastic. Most technology today is the result of severe abstraction, excluding all the details that aren't essential and focusing on making things simple for the user. This results in a user completed disconnected from the actual low-level function of the computer. But with these old mainframes, the reference manuals get into how the mainframes work, talking about CPU (the size of a large cabinet) separated into distinct parts that are essentially the control unit and the ALU.
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Commodore computer manuals have pretty much all that. I'm not even old enough to have used one in their heyday, but it's fun exploring these old machines.
Pic related is EBR-I, a classy piece of tech too far ahead of its time.
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Back to your safe space >>>/pol/
I like wheel. Helps moving stuff around if you have good road.