#mainframes

[scipunk]

Desk Set (1957)

[oldguydoesstuff]

Control Data CDC 844 storage system at NASAs Ames Research center in the early 1980s. Each drive unit held multiple multi-platter disk packs, full configuration here represents over 500GB of storage which is a mind boggling amount of data for the time.

Yet...today would fit on one or two USB thumb drives or a fairly cheap external disk drive.

[stone-cold-groove]

How a Computer System Works. John A. Brown & Robert S. Workmen - 1975.

[deepdreamnights]

Every Single Panel Does Something

That's how you know it's science fiction.

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[the-frog-pond-arts]

Been watching the SGDQ 2025 Vods in my free time and came across this character from MainFrames and just had to turn it into a Papercraft character. Just kinda liking this floppy disk character with so much personality.

Made in procreate

[dinosaurspen]

Eternally upset I missed the public access Multics installation that apparently existed a few years ago before blipping off the face of the internet... who wants to start a new one with me?

[codeandcanvas]

For those of you who are about to delete your account(s)

I know and understand you. There are reasons, hell, you have reasons to delete whatever account it is you want deleted.

But download your own data first. Archive it. Zip that archive and push it into some automatically syncing folder between local and cloud, so that you can work around data degradation for a longer period of time.

Because you put whatever it is, whatever it was, you put it together and you had reasons for that.

Besides, the companies which used to host your account and your content are not ever deleting whatever it is you made and uploaded, shared and wrote: that is how valuable it is. That is the value of data.

Because neither do these companies know what all this data might be useful for, but they suspect that it will have a purpose in the future.

That purpose is being an archive.

Now, I would normally type something like “welcome to..” and then call it whatever weird stylistic anachronism I could come up with, but I won’t. I don’t trust people who name things. I am moving away from giving things names.

You are using a computer. Parts of what you do with your computer live on someone else’s storage drives. You should learn how to make copies of your own data, and store it well.

Companies like Twitter or Facebook will not be around forever. The next fire sale is always around the corner.

Save your data. Then delete your accounts/make your data unavailable for people outside the company.

[vintagegeekculture]

IBM 370.