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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Good information Tesla (TSLA) stock surges from optimistic look at Dojo supercomputer Quote: “”Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in the note: The autonomous car has been described as the mother of all AI projects. In its quest to solve for autonomy, Tesla has developed an advanced supercomputing architecture that pushes new boundaries in custom
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When I was in the Army in Germany, I worked at the switchboard. We had a few telephone lines between HQ where I was and other missile battalions. These were from the German telephone system. There weren’t enough telephone pairs so they ordered the transformers used to make phantom circuits and installed them at both
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Long ago, I was typing away on my Apple //e and Applewrite, and I noticed that one of the words was misspelled – instead of garden it said farden. So I corrected it and went on. Then later, I noticed it was still misspelled! So I corrected it, and went on. Just out of curiosity,
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Asianometry’s YouTube channel has some of the most interesting and informative videos on semiconductor manufacturing and the history of electronics. He also has a catalog of his videos. Here is one which everyone who owns a smartphone or PC should watch to find out what is inside of their device.
Several decades ago I read about these new Josephson devices that the scientists had invented, and how they would do wonderful things in the future. Here we are decades later and we hear nothing about Josephson devices. So here’s another interesting device, it uses indium selenide. It sounds promising but it may end up like
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Sabine Hossenfelder goes over the history and ways that Moore’s Law may still make progress. Also a few good comments.
Amazing how tiny the pieces are. The photo was taken with an electron microscope. More about MEMS accelerometers here: https://mems.polimi.it/index.php/accelerometers?fbclid=IwAR2riO6QcedkMZXuZJCsXvM2evY9m_Dv8fbpsf7GwjQdw8dL_NyYaVugmYo
This is a quote from a post in a group about auto ECM – electronic control module – repair. “”Andrew Brown 12h To the young budding electronics techs out there – listen up. This is a potential opportunity for you to build a decent business with pretty dedicated customers. (No involvement on my part.) The
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I had a “high quality” 1 meter long USB A male to type C charging cable go bad so I cut the bad type C connector off. Then I stripped and twisted the two 5V wires together and measured the total wire resistance on the A end with my HP 3478 DMM in the 4
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