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 10/12/2009 Prairie Chicken placed it in CacheU...Gesundheit Saskatchewan, Canada - 419.11 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/8/2009 Prairie Chicken retrieved it from "Hoo Hoo, What a View!" British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Found the TB while on a great hike in BC. Will move along to Saskatchewan in a week. Thanx for sharing.

Dropped Off 8/23/2009 thisismeisthatu placed it in "Hoo Hoo, What a View!" British Columbia, Canada - 195.83 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/30/2008 thisismeisthatu retrieved it from beyond fair chase Montana   Visit Log

This one is embrassing found this travel bug in my Geocaching bag today August 22 2009. It was there for over a year I am very sorry for having it that long will drop it off today in a cache in BC
Dropped Off 7/9/2008 PolarBZ placed it in beyond fair chase Montana - 97.07 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/26/2008 PolarBZ retrieved it from Wallace Silver Idaho   Visit Log

Pulled from Wallace Silver and will be moving along! Does the PS3 count as a unique computer? Some places have begun to string them together as a cost-effective alternative to supercomputers.

Thanks for sharing!
Discovered It 6/22/2008 redgoat67 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered. Thanks.
Discovered It 6/22/2008 ihavecats discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered on my way home with redgoat67 from the Missoula Cache Machine. Thanks.
Dropped Off 6/22/2008 JustMike placed it in Wallace Silver Idaho - 2,046.65 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/19/2008 JustMike retrieved it from The Lofty Ammo Box North Carolina   Visit Log

PNW bound.

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