Author Topic: can you guess what this motherboard is from? (Read 3338 times)

danny_galaga · « **on:** April 27, 2005, 09:18:14 am »

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

)

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2005, 09:19:56 am »

clueless

GGKoul · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2005, 09:38:16 am »

Computer Space?

daywane · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2005, 05:05:29 pm »

I have not seen any thing like that since I worked at a factory called microchip in AZ programing eproms

monkeybomb · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2005, 05:34:49 pm »

THEREMIN?

Santoro · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2005, 08:22:08 pm »

Looks like it is out of the Thomas Ediison Museum..

paigeoliver · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2005, 12:15:33 am »

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).

Bones · « **Reply #7 on:** April 28, 2005, 04:08:55 am »

I thought it was a fridge.

menace · « **Reply #8 on:** April 28, 2005, 07:22:40 am »

IBM's first supercomputer..the lesser known "Big Brown" Able to calculate PI to a staggering 10 decimals....

sodapopinski · « **Reply #9 on:** April 28, 2005, 09:15:26 am »

hey I learned about those in school, its an abacus.

Stingray · « **Reply #10 on:** April 28, 2005, 09:44:24 am »

It's "Deep Thought"

42

-S

gprime · « **Reply #11 on:** April 28, 2005, 10:25:20 am »

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.

Chris · « **Reply #12 on:** April 28, 2005, 10:59:22 am »

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?

walls83 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 28, 2005, 11:40:29 am »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 28, 2005, 04:08:55 am

I thought it was a fridge.

word

GGKoul · « **Reply #14 on:** April 28, 2005, 12:16:21 pm »

Quote from: walls83 on April 28, 2005, 11:40:29 am

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 28, 2005, 04:08:55 am
I thought it was a fridge.

word

Actually looks more like a standup freezer.

Stingray · « **Reply #15 on:** April 28, 2005, 12:32:59 pm »

The real issue here is will it run MAME?

-S

Harry Potter · « **Reply #16 on:** April 28, 2005, 02:38:07 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on April 28, 2005, 12:32:59 pm

The real issue here is will it run MAME?

-S

Will it run teh SFIII 3rd strike?

Flinkly · « **Reply #17 on:** April 28, 2005, 02:44:14 pm »

i've only read this thread just now, but the suspense is killing me. just tell us already!

Stingray · « **Reply #18 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:02:59 pm »

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?

-S

Jabba · « **Reply #19 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:17:19 pm »

Ooohhh, Oooooh, I know....It's the first ever release of the prototype for PONG!!

(Hurry up already, the suspense is killing us...

)

Flinkly · « **Reply #20 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:20:01 pm »

well what was a hard game to play from the beginning days of games?

Shape D. · « **Reply #21 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:28:10 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on April 28, 2005, 03:02:59 pm

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?

-S

please, Its obviously a "Jonny 4" the model predating Jonny 5.

Stingray · « **Reply #22 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:30:44 pm »

It's a hyperdrive motivator.

-S

Jabba · « **Reply #23 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:39:47 pm »

Its the first implementation of a electronic chess game...

Zakk · « **Reply #24 on:** April 28, 2005, 05:48:18 pm »

I am quite certain it is a controller board for a pipe organ.

edit, what edit?

nostrebor · « **Reply #25 on:** April 28, 2005, 06:15:26 pm »

It's the computer that's hooked to the big red button in the oval office.

Too easy

saint · « **Reply #26 on:** April 28, 2005, 06:50:28 pm »

It's a prototype marital aid.

GGKoul · « **Reply #27 on:** April 28, 2005, 06:56:36 pm »

First form of junk mail for a penis enhancer.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #28 on:** April 28, 2005, 08:11:24 pm »

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!

P.P.S: i believe you can actually play tic tac toe on it.

Zakk · « **Reply #29 on:** April 28, 2005, 08:29:42 pm »

Quote from: danny_galaga on April 28, 2005, 08:11:24 pm

i cant believe one of you actually hit on what it is!!

So it's actually a marital aid?

danny_galaga · « **Reply #30 on:** April 28, 2005, 08:33:30 pm »

hehe

xar256 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 28, 2005, 09:23:48 pm »

If somebody got it right...I'd have to throw my 2 cents in with Jabba on the Electronic Chess game...

Xar256

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>

SirPoonga · « **Reply #32 on:** April 28, 2005, 09:53:58 pm »

One of the Bally skill games?

danny_galaga · « **Reply #33 on:** April 29, 2005, 12:40:44 am »

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...

Bones · « **Reply #34 on:** April 29, 2005, 02:03:56 am »

I think it's for growing pot.

tommy · « **Reply #35 on:** April 29, 2005, 06:43:46 am »

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.

Bones · « **Reply #36 on:** April 29, 2005, 06:45:24 am »

Quote from: tommy on April 29, 2005, 06:43:46 am

think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)

tommy · « **Reply #37 on:** April 29, 2005, 06:48:38 am »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 29, 2005, 06:45:24 am

Quote from: tommy on April 29, 2005, 06:43:46 am
think if i myself were guessing i would say its a fuel injection module off a harley davidson (",)

edwardvci · « **Reply #38 on:** April 29, 2005, 08:35:38 am »

Hand-held prototype of SIMON

GGKoul · « **Reply #39 on:** April 29, 2005, 10:00:59 am »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 29, 2005, 06:45:24 am

Quote from: tommy on April 29, 2005, 06:43:46 am
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.

Yeah, I am doing his sister....

Make sure after your finish, you set fire to Danny's shelving unit.


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