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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: danny_galaga on April 27, 2005, 09:18:14 am
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ok, so i visited a friend today who was working on this motherboard and memory register. 3 huzzahs to the first person to guess what its from.
ill give you a clue. its damn hard to play (",)
(and no, its not an east german clone of pong ;))
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clueless
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Computer Space?
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I have not seen any thing like that since I worked at a factory called microchip in AZ programing eproms
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THEREMIN?
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Looks like it is out of the Thomas Ediison Museum..
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If the first picture was higher res then I might be able to figure it out, first picture has text on it.
I would give it a definite pre 1970s date (for both the complete lack of ICs and the look of the wiring).
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I thought it was a fridge.
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IBM's first supercomputer..the lesser known "Big Brown" Able to calculate PI to a staggering 10 decimals.... :D
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hey I learned about those in school, its an abacus.
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It's "Deep Thought"
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I used to have an electronics teacher that brought in piles and piles of these home made circuits, they look sort of like the ones you show. Apparently he was building a massive electronic pipe organ.
He also had it hooked into a really old school computer (back when computers were "solder-it-yourself") to play his organ music for him.
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This isn't the computer that ran the old Tic-Tac-Toe game at the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry back in the '70's, is it?
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I thought it was a fridge.
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I thought it was a fridge.
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Actually looks more like a standup freezer.
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The real issue here is will it run MAME?
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The real issue here is will it run MAME?
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Will it run teh SFIII 3rd strike?
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i've only read this thread just now, but the suspense is killing me. just tell us already!
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I've decided to post a ridiculous guess every time I view this thread until the real answer is revealed.
Is it a HAL 9000?
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Ooohhh, Oooooh, I know....It's the first ever release of the prototype for PONG!!
(Hurry up already, the suspense is killing us... ;D)
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well what was a hard game to play from the beginning days of games?
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I've decided to post a ridiculous guess every time I view this thread until the real answer is revealed.
Is it a HAL 9000?
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please, Its obviously a "Jonny 4" the model predating Jonny 5.
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It's a hyperdrive motivator.
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Its the first implementation of a electronic chess game...
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I am quite certain it is a controller board for a pipe organ.
edit, what edit?
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It's the computer that's hooked to the big red button in the oval office.
Too easy ::)
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It's a prototype marital aid.
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First form of junk mail for a penis enhancer.
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i cant believe one of you actually hit on what it is!! ill post another pic just to add more suspense- because i can (",)
this is the back of one of the control panels.
P.S: dunno about your fridges, but all the ones ive ever had were a tad simpler, and not made of wood! ;D
P.P.S: i believe you can actually play tic tac toe on it.
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i cant believe one of you actually hit on what it is!!
So it's actually a marital aid?
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hehe :o
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If somebody got it right...I'd have to throw my 2 cents in with Jabba on the Electronic Chess game...
Xar256 ;D
Other than that...I woulda said it looks like an old telecoms cross connect panel...<You can only play "spy" types of games on those> :angel:
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One of the Bally skill games?
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i think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",) (bones will know why i say that...)
oh, and paige. there is another panel that i didnt show that does have ICs on it, although only the 4 pin metal can types. the pic didnt come up very well...
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I think it's for growing pot.
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think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",) (bones will know why i say that...)
Thats cute, Bones and Danny have something going on togeather. ;D
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think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)
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think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)
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Hand-held prototype of SIMON
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think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",) (bones will know why i say that...)
Thats cute, Bones and Danny have something going on togeather. ;D
Yeah, I am doing his sister....
Make sure after your finish, you set fire to Danny's shelving unit.
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think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",) (bones will know why i say that...)
Thats cute, Bones and Danny have something going on togeather. ;D
Yeah, I am doing his sister....
don't make me pull out the picture of that lady with her belly hanin' out.
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Judging from that last picture I'd say it was some kind of electronic cow milker.
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Perhaps its the real-life version of the guidance system used in that Russian satellite on the movie "space Cowboys"
Or, maybe Saint has it right.
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....losing interest.
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It's a "Somebody Else's Problem Field" generator.
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*Bump*
I guess Danny forgot about the thread.....
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think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)
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Judging from that last picture I'd say it was some kind of electronic cow milker.
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thats what came to mind when i read saints response! i was thinking 'what kind of woman is he trying to pleasure'
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my friend is in the middle. now i look at this pic i see that my friends assistant seems to be enjoying herself immensely. i cant help but wonder if saint wasn't right after all ;)
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here is the business end of it. my friend repairs, tunes and builds church organs, in australia that makes him genuinely about a one in a million person! this organ dates from the 1880's and these sorts of things are constantly upgraded. it originally had pneumatically operated valves but sometime in the early 20th century it received an electrical keyboard, valves operated by solenoids (except for a few really large ones which are still pneumatic).
even in the early days there was a way of 'preprogramming' the different stops on the left and right side. in 1984 it was completely restored which is what all the stuff i posted dates from. when you set a programme, all the stops move in and out to the correct position, a bit ghostly really. if it was a modern machine of course each switch would just light up rather than a solenoid move it in and out. wouldnt look as cool though (",) a lot of the electronics was about multiplexing certain pipes since this organ has approximately 2500 of them!
so my friend has almost finished replacing all the old electronics with much more modern stuff. you should see the wiring looms, some of them have nearly one hundred strands of data cable :o - makes our mame wiring look like nothing.
the new motherboard has an EPROM. the production volumn is so low that each motherboard is made to spec and the manual is specific to that church.
it was really cool that he let me have a look in. i even got to climb up inside it to photograph the internals. a site most tourists dont get to see (",)
and of course, since it is a musical instrument you can play 'tic,tac,toe' on it- albiet a tune of that name rather than the game. hey, i thought it was a clever clue!
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Wow.. I cant believe it was a pipe organ. My electronics teacher showed us pictures of these massive pipes he dedicated to his basement, and then he had the regular sized pipes upstairs. Him and his brother-in-law apparently built the thing when the first computers in canada were just being sold (he claims he bought his computer from "the first canadian computer store"), and he had to solder it together himself. He wired the whole thing together with piles and piles of circuit boards that look very similar to the ones you showed, and then from there they were interfaced with the computer. Apparently BASIC ran too slow to run his music so he was forced to use straight assembly.
That crazy old man sure loved his organ music :P
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A pipe organ??
I think my pot growing comment was closer to the mark than most first realised.
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Danny Galaga has a HUGE organ!
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Danny Galaga has a HUGE organ!
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i thought had all those pics removed from that site...