Comments on: How the Computer gets the answer

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:03:57 +0000

I spent 1000’s of hours wirewraping the future. (Good times!)

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:26:26 +0000

Thanks for scanning the “centerfolds” as one image! Hubba hubba!

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:16:57 +0000

Slim, those right angle bends may be because that’s what the military liked to see. As machines got faster, crosstalk between parallel wires became a problem; diagonal crisscrossing wires helps eliminate that problem.

By: slim

slim — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:43:03 +0000

Much of that early work was done by hand, some of it by women working with microscopes. At North American they got extra breaks because of the eye strain. Even the core memories were hand woven. It’s no wonder the equipment was so expensive. You can tell that the wire wrap panel was hand routed because of the right angle bends. Later, automatic machines went point to point.

By: Tracy B.

Tracy B. — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:30:24 +0000

Love that wirewrap techology!

By: Casandro

Casandro — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:20:18 +0000

Wow, I doubt you fould so detailed information about computers in any magazine today.

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:33:21 +0000

In Dec, 2007 Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine gave a lecture about what the internet would be like in the future. The net was about 5,000 days old at the time and he sets that as the boundary for the future. He mentions that the internet is the largest, most complex, most dependable machine that humankind has ever built, making the computer in this article look about like a toaster.
Watch it here:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/t.....e_web.html