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

Retrieve It from a Cache 4/24/2011 Cougar Kid retrieved it from Cookhouse blues British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Exchanged this for another TB - it has already been moved on.... :-)
Dropped Off 3/21/2011 Groundhounds placed it in Cookhouse blues British Columbia, Canada - 2.84 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in Cookhouse blues
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/11/2011 Groundhounds retrieved it from 3 Generations Cache British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Retrieved from 3 generations cache
Dropped Off 3/6/2011 highsea placed it in 3 Generations Cache British Columbia, Canada - 25.09 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in 3 Generations Cache
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/3/2011 highsea retrieved it from Ruper and O'Henry - Dumont MTB trails British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Will move along assp
Dropped Off 1/28/2011 Team MUMSY placed it in Ruper and O'Henry - Dumont MTB trails British Columbia, Canada - 4.24 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 1/16/2011 SoobaxM discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it. Thank you for sharing.Saw this at the BCGA AGM event in Nanaimo!

Discovered It 1/15/2011 seekandsail discovered it   Visit Log

Seen at the BCGA AGM in the Nanaimo.
Discovered It 1/15/2011 Olddffart discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the BCGA AGM in Naniamo. Thank you for sharing.
Discovered It 1/15/2011 orange shoes discovered it   Visit Log

Saw you visiting with other TB's at the AGM
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