9.28.2012

Keep going, you're getting warm

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Not everyone’s pulse will quicken with a glimpse of a 1956 I.B.M. Ramac actuator and disk stack. For many, too, the 1959 Telefunken RAT 700/2 analog computer will just look like a cross between an antediluvian switchboard and the control panel for a German submarine.…


Wait. Telefunken RAT? And you thought Apple was a funny name?

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