Vintage shots from days gone by!

http://www.retrothing.com/2009/02/the-shadowy-origin-of-tvs-batmobile.html

 

http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/255-40131

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=52&i=20850

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1950s-chrysler-concept-cars.htm/printable

 

http://www.gatter.net/Html/Gatter-Car/Car.htm

 

http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/Studebaker_National_Museum_Prototype_Exhibit/

 

http://www.wichitaphotos.org/searchresults.asp?txtinput=Transportation&offset=140

 

http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/ask_the_unique_cars_team_5.htm

 

http://www.sun-inet.or.jp/~bellco/ehst.htm

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/3858705210/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/3895970024/

 

"Captain George Eysten drove his Safety Special at Brooklands in 1933 at a maximum speed of 106.68 mph."
http://www.f2motorcycles.ltd.uk/competition.html
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ahh computers,,

"what the heck does this thing do anyway"??
"nevermind, just act like you know what you're doing"

The correct heading is
IBM's First Computer
At General Electric's Aircraft Jet Engine Plant in Evendale, Ohio, this 1954 photo shows GE manager Herbert Grosch explaining the 701 to Ronald Reagan. Reagan was a TV personality for GE at the time. (Image courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation.)

 

,,,, Lebedev made the first Soviet supercomputer, BESM-6, in 1967. Running at an impressive 10MHz to speed execution, the BESM-6 used cache memory to store frequently used instructions and could work on processing up to 14 instructions at once. Lebedev called this the 'principle of water pipe' – what we now call instruction pipelining. However, much of the technology used in the BESM-6 wasn't original. It was stolen from IBM.
In the 1960s, computer scientists were ordered to abandon trying to surpass Western technology from scratch. Instead, they were to simply copy whatever IBM did.


Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/compu...nist-computing-618217?artc_pg=2#ixzz12Oa5HUPK

 

"David Stirling's "Blitz Buggy", a Ford V-8 staff car that he had converted to look like an enemy staff car, for use on the raid on Benghazi. It later his a small mine, lost a wheel, was salvaged, and later shot up and burned by an Italian CR42 fighter. Left to right: Seekings, Rose, Colonel Stirling and Cooper. Note the SAS crest on the door." (Johnny Cooper photo from ONE OF THE ORIGINALS)


http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/sas.htm

 

http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/station_wagons.htm

 

http://henk.fox3000.com/fbminis.htm



http://202.63.50.228/jeep/variants.html



http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/fredkayrly.html

 

http://202.63.50.228/jeep/variants.html

 

A company by the name of Models 56 is releasing a diecast version of the Grice/Gardner Corvair to collectors "down under". I have one of each on their way to me, only a handful are making their way to the US.
http://models56.com.au/

There is some really great racing history in Australia.
And the specs on that Corvair are really interesting.

 

Here are a couple of before and after photos the Captioneers can have a field day with.......

 

When I was stationed in northern Japan with the U.S.A.F. Security Service in the late 50s, our computer operation consisted of a room full of BIG machines and a lot of punch card sorters. Almost all data was stored on tape or on those punch cards. One of the best pranks to pull on a newbie was to tell him he had to take all those itty-bitty punched out pieces (do they call them "chads" now?) and make sure they were incinerated. This entailed getting each one of the little buggers out of the cracks in the floor, etc. He was told this was necessary because if the Soviets got hold of them they could figure out what we were putting on the cards.

 

We had similar experiences on the ship, probably not pc correct now but, it was fun to take the trash to the fantail and dump it overboard, when it came to tapes, we tied something to the end of the tape, held the reel and let all the tape out, those suckers are long, And down in the computer rm when we had a tape error on the tape reader, there was a little read head that you could flip up, we just put a finger over the tape and voila, the tape read fine,,, fun times
Hope this isnt too o/t..

Here is some trivia on univac 1500 system I learned to operate back in 74:

STORAGE

No. of No. of Access
Medium Words Digits Microsec
Magnetic Core 4,096 - 32,768 18 1.8 access
4.0 cycle
Magnetic Core (NDRO)* 32 18 4.0 cycle
FH 880 Drum 786,432 words/drum 36 17 ms
(8 per channel) (Average access)
Magnetic tape
No. of units that can be connected 16 Units/channel
No. of chars/linear inch 556 Chars/inch
Channels or tracks on the tape 7 Track/tape
Blank tape separating each record 0.75 Inches
Tape speed 112.5 Inches/sec
Transfer rate 62.5 Chars/sec
Average time for experienced
operator to change reel of tape 30 Seconds
Physical properties of tape
Width 0.5 Inches
Length of reel 2,400 Feet
Composition Mylar

The magnetic tape subsystem, Type 1240 is a fully compatible magnetic
tape format at 200 or 556 chars/ inch. It has search and other special
features.

* Non-destructive read-out

INPUT
Medium Speed
Card Reader 600 cards/min (Commercial, 80 or 90
column)
Paper Tape 300 chars/sec (5 to 8 level)
Keyboard Manual (Provides alphanumeric
data entry)
Teletype 10 chars/sec
Paper Tape and Keyboard are included in Programmers
Console, Type 1232.

OUTPUT

Medium Speed
High Speed Printer 600 lines/min(Commercial)
Card Punch 150 cards/min (Commercial 80 or
90 column)
Paper Tape Punch 110 chars/sec (5 to 8 level)
Monitor Printer 10 chars/sec

Paper Tape Punch and Monitor Printer are included in Programmers
Console, Type 1232.

CIRCUIT ELEMENTS OF ENTIRE SYSTEM
Type Quantity
Magnetic Cores 73,728 to 589,824
Number of cores varies according to memory size, e.g., 73,728/4,096
words of memory.

CHECKING FEATURES

Programmed parity checking.

POWER, SPACE, WEIGHT, AND SITE PREPARATION

Power, computer 0.85 Kw
Power, blowers 0.15 Kw
Volume, computer 23.3 cu ft
Area, computer 3.9 sq ft
Floor loading 198 lbs/sq ft
198 lbs concen max
Ambient air cooled; equipment included in computer
cabinet.
Weight, computer 775 lbs

May be ship or van mounted. Does not require false floor. Power
required is 115 V, 1 phase, 60 cycle and 115 V, 3 phase, 400 cycle.

COST, PRICE AND RENTAL RATES

Basic System/Component Purchase
Minimum 1218 Computer: 4k memory,
4 I/0 $ 96,000
Most common 1218 Computer:
16K memory, 8 I/0 127,000
Militarized Mag Tape System
(2 handlers) 80,500
Paper Tape Subsystem incl.
keyboard & printer 25,000
High speed printer system 77,500
80 column card system 83,250

Fixed price sale only on 1218 basic system.

 

remembering bettie

 

Ok, Bettie who?

 

Betty White?



He's referring to Bettie Page, a 50's model

 

Well I'll be,,,,,,,,,,

 

Bettie Page is correct !!