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
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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 4/19/2008 CarolinaCardsFan placed it in The Lofty Ammo Box North Carolina - 15.38 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 4/17/2008 CarolinaCardsFan grabbed it   Visit Log

Found this one at Dinocache (GC117Q5) in Chapel Hill. It will pay a quick visit to a dinosaur of a computer I have in my house before moving along to bigger and better adventures.

Dropped Off 3/22/2008 astrachan placed it in Gimghoul's Shadow North Carolina - 62.64 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/28/2007 astrachan retrieved it from Old Johnston Mill North Carolina   Visit Log

Picked up for next delivery -- it's visiting the old computers in our house.
Dropped Off 1/25/2007 mnloon placed it in Old Johnston Mill North Carolina - 16.98 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/16/2007 mnloon retrieved it from RDU Travel Bug Hotel North Carolina   Visit Log

We've known a few computers that we would have liked to reduce to this state! Will move it on soon.
Dropped Off 1/14/2007 Edgar Allan Gump placed it in RDU Travel Bug Hotel North Carolina - 8.74 miles  Visit Log
  • Welcome to the Data Center There aren't many old computers and there isn't one super computer here but there are many fairly powerful computers using a ton of electricity and network bandwidth. I wanted to take more pictures but I was a little hesitant to considering they probably wouldn't like that a took these and they have my fingerprints on file to boot.
  • One of the Racks of computers There is a decent amount of processing just right there.
  • Up Close and Personal The Rack, up close and personal. (As a result of this shot the TB had a little accident and the read head broke off, sorry.)
Dropped Off 12/16/2006 Edgar Allan Gump placed it in Henry's Cache North Carolina - 22.85 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 12/16/2006 Edgar Allan Gump grabbed it   Visit Log

Grabbed from jklGoDuke when finding Henry's Cache (GCZTBN). I love it! Now where to take it...
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/15/2006 Edgar Allan Gump retrieved it from Henry's Cache North Carolina   Visit Log

picking back up
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