Tesla unveils the Cybercab or Robotaxi. Musk calls it individualized mass transit. It’s projected to cost $.20 a mile, compared to $1.00 a mile for busses. https://www.facebook.com/interestingengineering/videos/1232322724701382/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Musk called the 20 passenger autonomous vehicle the Robovan, pronounced like ruh-BO-vun not like RO-bo-van. https://www.facebook.com/reel/851132957006684/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘Computer History’ Category:
2024-03-15 Ferranti Argus “Hearing Aid” Computer
In the “Original Series” chapter this very interesting Wikipedia article talks about the “hearing aid computer” that used the OC-71 germanium transistors which were used in hearing aids and could go only up to 25kHz clock rate. That was quite slow – tube computers could clock at 500kHz. Later models used faster transistors and could
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2024-02-05 1960s IT Guy Predicts The Future
He got almost all of it right. But at that time no one knew how portable they would become. No one knew how many more things they would be and do – telephone, camera, audio and video recorders, run hundreds of applications such as the browsers that access the Worldwide Web. Email, messaging, clock, calendar
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2023-09-23 Mainframe Tape Drives
During my mainframe computer days, someone made a foot or so long rod with a metal base. We would grab a handful of write rings and have a write ring tossing contest. During the daytime the day shift would run dozens of batch jobs on the computer, and they would queue up in the printer
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2020-12-23 Harald Bluetooth And Our Cellphones
Tom Scott tells us the story of the Danish king who united the Scandinavians. How the ‘personal area network’ ln our cellphones got the name Bluetooth. He shows us the ancient runestones, one by Harald Bluetooth. https://youtu.be/VdmQp9M9jUo
2017-06-01 How To Disable 5V Regulator?
I’ve been getting PC boards that have all the chips operating at 5 volts, but the input voltage has to be between 7 and 12 volts. The board has a 5 volt regulator on the board, and often it is a surface mount chip. But I have dozens of 5 VDC, 1/2 amp AC adapters,
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2015-11-24 AT&T or at&t Article
The day after tomorrow is turkey day, and I have been trying to read some online things but I keep getting distracted. One article I found on Investopedia is about at&t, as its logo is now spelled, but was known as AT&T for more than a century. The article gives a bit of at&t’s history
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2015-06-19 U of Cambridge Computer
The University of Cambridge computer circa 1949. Back then the computer took up the whole room. It’s difficult to imagine that nowadays we have thousands of times more computing power in our pocket.
2014-10-04 MS Win 8 Dying Away
An article appeared in The Register about the percentages of Windows OSes out there being used. I was surprised at how low the percentage of Win 8 & 8.1 were. It looks as if Win 8/8.1 are going to be this decade’s Vista: treated as a hornets’ nest and completely avoided, even though the prospective
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