{"id":1880,"date":"2012-03-29T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2012-04-11T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:53:22","slug":"2012-03-29-aztec-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"2012-03-29 Aztec Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1883\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1883\" title=\"AztecCalendar-image[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AztecCalendar-image1-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AztecCalendar-image1-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AztecCalendar-image1.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Quantsuff sent me a pic of an Aztec PC.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see any CD\/DVD slot or button, leading me to believe that this was just a drawing from someone&#8217;s imagination.\u00a0 But it looks cool in a Steampunk kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Mayan Calendars, isn&#8217;t this year, according to their calendar, supposed to be the end of the world?<\/p>\n<p>I once saw that calendar, cast out of bronze, more than a meter across and probably weighed a quarter ton, hanging over the headboard in a bedroom.\u00a0 Scary thought in So Calif, where an earthquake might cause it to turn you into a grease spot in your own bed.\u00a0 Mitigating circumstance: the concrete house was built by a wealthy oil magnate by the name of Carbon Dubbs, who sandblasted the wooden forms before the concrete was poured in, making the concrete walls take on a wood grained appearance.\u00a0 Cool!\u00a0 The house was built stronger than a brick outhouse, so that kind of weight on the wall was not a big thing.<\/p>\n<p>I found it amusing when I read about the archeologists&#8217; explorations in the pyramids of Mexico.\u00a0 It turned out that the builders built pyramid upon pyramid, each bigger than the rest.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t it be really weird if you opened up this computer, and inside found an Apple 2?\u00a0 Then you open the Apple&#8217;s lid, and find a calculator built by Babbage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantsuff sent me a pic of an Aztec PC.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see any CD\/DVD slot or button, leading me to believe that this was just a drawing from someone&#8217;s imagination.\u00a0 But it looks cool in a Steampunk kind of way. Speaking of Mayan Calendars, isn&#8217;t this year, according to their calendar, supposed to be the<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=1880\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-other-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}