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

Dropped Off 9/21/2010 Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat placed it in Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup: Neck Point Park British Columbia, Canada - 499.3 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/19/2010 Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat grabbed it   Visit Log

This TB has had quite the adventures....

I found it in a cache near Kelowna BC back in august. The cache was muggled and full of water, luckily the TB remained! It was a while until we got back home from that vacation so I guess I totally forgot about it.... BUT TODAY was cleaning out one of my bags and here was this travel bug. ❔ Wow, it's been a couple hundred km's in between here and there, stuck in my bag.

For now it resides at home in Nanaimo BC.... In a place I will remember. 😉
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/16/2010 MicKnight retrieved it from Welcome to Cowley's Travel Bug Motel and Library Alberta, Canada   Visit Log

Moving it along.... one of the unique travel bugs in cach , so I picked it up.

Discovered It 5/7/2010 kootenaycarver discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered in the Cowley TB Motel
Dropped Off 3/14/2010 HeroEtAl placed it in Welcome to Cowley's Travel Bug Motel and Library Alberta, Canada - 55.38 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/5/2010 HeroEtAl retrieved it from FYI Alberta, Canada   Visit Log

Will make sure we get a good photo op :)

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Dropped Off 12/1/2009 MD050 placed it in FYI Alberta, Canada - 352.16 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/24/2009 MD050 retrieved it from Wherethehellami,s Geocoin & Travelbug Hotel Saskatchewan, Canada   Visit Log

located at wherethehellami, on the way to Lethbridge on Monday so Alberta here it comes
Discovered It 11/15/2009 CRAC1 discovered it   Visit Log

found this one in wherethehellami. cool bug.
Dropped Off 11/8/2009 SaskAcadie placed it in Wherethehellami,s Geocoin & Travelbug Hotel Saskatchewan, Canada - 25.45 miles  Visit Log
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