the ART COLONY

[sesame]

More Graffiti around the block, near your home...

[sesame]

Superman, batman, spiderman, wonderwoman... ...
Somehow I like superman more.

[sesame]

Einstein giving the clarion call to promote free software!
Kidding! There were no computers or software at the time of Einstein.
But then I always say thumbs up for open source software.
Its a service to the spirit of mankind and philosophy of free thought.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

ummm, of course there were computers in the time of Einstein, and you don't get real computers without software. Einstein lived at the same time as Alan Turing, who pretty much invented the modern definition of a computer, and built the amazing Colossus machines, the first electronic, digital, programmable computers. Of course, there was no free software, as all the Colossus machines and thier software were UK military secrets and the workings of the Harvard-IBM mark 1 was a military secret of the US navy. However, Einstein lived till 1955, so he would have been around to see he first commercial computers around 1951, however costing hundreds of thousands and only used by large busineses, there wouldn't have been any free software, so Einstein and computers in the modern sense shared the planet for about 11 years. As a socialist, I'm sure Einstein would have strongly approved of free software though.

[sesame]

J. H. Felker and J. R. Harris created TRADIC, the first transistor driven computer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1955. No vacuum tubes, just 800 transistors, Not hot, but cold & highly efficient;
Power requirement = 100 watts

But even so, dear sister Anna, it was only a giant 3 cubic feet calculator!

I guessed beforehand that someone will fill the information hole and most probably ...

[sesame]

GRH, Jimnaseum, hanky, Bionca... have you all gone into hiding or have you attained RIP status?

Post your Rant here! Grrrrrah!

'Nyway, found this interesting album cover.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

Originally Posted by sesame

J. H. Felker and J. R. Harris created TRADIC, the first transistor driven computer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1955. No vacuum tubes, just 800 transistors, Not hot, but cold & highly efficient;
Power requirement = 100 watts

But even so, dear sister Anna, it was only a giant 3 cubic feet calculator!

I guessed beforehand that someone will fill the information hole and most probably ...

Transistors have no difference in function to valves, only in size, speed and heat efficiency.

Anyway, what do you think a computer is? All a computer actually does is perform a series of mathematical operations. The only difference is the scale.

Colossus could still decode German transmissions, I'd like to see you do that on your pocket calculator.

[sesame]

Arithmetic and Logic, Anna.
And computers in those days and many years to come had very limited capabilities. Forget the complex dataprocessing and analyses and image processing and rendering and sound processing and simulation and interactivity & whatever you see nowadays.

[jimnaseum]

Two self portraits