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What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:51 am
by fixxervi6
Who can guess what this is
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Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:13 am
by Striple
Your gixxer boxed up after an oil change?

:D

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:14 am
by fixxervi6
Striple wrote:Your gixxer boxed up after an oil change?

:D
If that was a picture of a box on the back of a trailer being hauled to a shop you'd be right!

but it's not, so guess again :))

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:15 am
by milesmiles
A person loading some cargo in a plane?

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:21 am
by DarcShadow
ding ding ding. You are correct sir.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:22 am
by fixxervi6
milesmiles wrote:A person loading some cargo in a plane?
be specific

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:23 am
by DarcShadow
A guy loading some cargo.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:23 am
by fixxervi6
But what is the cargo?

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:24 am
by milesmiles
atom bomb?

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:24 am
by DarcShadow
Although, he's facing the wrong way. Must be his first day on the job.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:25 am
by fixxervi6
milesmiles wrote:atom bomb?
No, but it is a piece of advanced technology for the time that the photo was taken

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:30 am
by fireblade
Its a desktop computer. the ones that uses punch cards for programing.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:31 am
by fixxervi6
fireblade wrote:Its a desktop computer. the ones that uses punch cards for programing.
Closer, but no, it's not a computer, it's a component of a computer

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:38 am
by fireblade
its a data storage device?

or an engine to run Miles' vibrator.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:40 am
by fixxervi6
fireblade wrote:its a data storage device?

or an engine to run Miles' vibrator.
It's a 2 ton 5 megabyte hard drive for a super computer.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:51 am
by milesmiles
I know absolutely nothing about computers, how does that compare to ones today

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:51 am
by Striple
fireblade wrote:or an engine to run Miles' vibrator.
:SideSplittingLaughter: :SideSplittingLaughter: :SideSplittingLaughter:

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:52 am
by milesmiles
don't hate

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:53 am
by fixxervi6
milesmiles wrote:I know absolutely nothing about computers, how does that compare to ones today
Today you could store 6,553 of those (equivilant storage) on an area about the size of your fingernail

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:56 am
by milesmiles
right on

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:57 am
by fireblade
Put it like this miles, your phone has thousands of times more storage than that two ton monster.

Re: What is it

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:40 pm
by U-Turn
I say shenannagians !
They didn't have Megabytes until the early 80's .
ha ha. :SideSplittingLaughter:

Re: What is it

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:36 pm
by Stardog82
Kegerator. Gotta be a kegerator. A big one.