Travel Bug Dog Tag Ode to Unique Computers

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Owner:
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Released:
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Origin:
North Carolina, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of thebarn32.

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Current Goal

Visit unique computers as it travels. It doesn't want to see your everyday Dell or Mac, it longs to see old grandparents, like ENIAC, or new cousins in the family, like Ultrawhite or Cray.

About This Item

This is a defunct 20 gigabyte hard drive from an mp3 player. I remember the 119 megabyte hard drive I had in my 386 was ridiculously huge back then and people would ask me how I could ever use that much space. Nowadays, hard drives are pushing the Terabyte envelope and PCs are way more powerful than what NASA had to launch Apollo missions into space. Supercomputers and mainframes today run arrays with hundreds of processors simultaneously, churning out billions or calculations per second. Just think, in 10 years, they will be obsolete too! Aren't computers cool?

Especially when they work right!

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Tracking History (4104.5mi) View Map

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 2/22/2012 wallywally grabbed it   Visit Log

In the hands of digginlife
Discovered It 2/5/2012 wallywally discovered it   Visit Log

In hands of digginlife
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/15/2012 ZombieSasquatch retrieved it from End of the Line Cache. British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Just getting things in proper order. This is where I found it. Will move it soon.
Discovered It 1/15/2012 macsoutdoors discovered it   Visit Log

Spotted in the hands of Digginlife at End of the Line cache.
Dropped Off 1/15/2012 ZombieSasquatch placed it in End of the Line Cache. British Columbia, Canada - 12.28 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 1/15/2012 ZombieSasquatch grabbed it   Visit Log

Found this in a cache. I will place and retrieve it from that cache then carry it on.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/16/2011 thebarn32 grabbed it   Visit Log

Moved and placed in a new log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/14/2011 thebarn32 retrieved it from Toys Ahoy! British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Have picked it up to move it to s new island next weekend
Discovered It 4/24/2011 paulboy discovered it   Visit Log

Saw in the hands of Cougar Kid today while caching..Paulboy
Dropped Off 4/24/2011 Cougar Kid placed it in Toys Ahoy! British Columbia, Canada - .23 miles  Visit Log
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