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x86sniper
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 Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: Local science museum -- A glimpse of the past technology |
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admin: I don't know where to put this, but if it is wrong kindly help the post to the correct forum, thanks..... 
Just have a trip to the local science museum 
so what??.......it is interesting 
here we go 
start with the front of the museum |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Continue
this is the place where the demostration of MIDI held
seems that somebody forgot to turn off their DOS box, though |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:49 am Post subject: |
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Go up one level to the transportation corner
this is a airbag controller in cars
beware.....your life is depending on INTEL  |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:56 am Post subject: |
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Another esculator heads for the energy / electricity level
look at how they place their PCs.....maximum ventilation
those PCs are interactive kiosks, calculating your electric usage from your input
originally those are IBM P166 PCs (no fans for CPU )but they got replaced  |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| perheaps this kiosk get a little tired , note the pale screen burn from prolonged usage |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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back straight down to the basement level we arrive at the ultimate scene 
three IBM PS/2 model 30/386 with its orginal screen still survive and carry on the job of demostration when most other units are replaced looong ago
from my knowledge it is a 386-20 unit
note how the switch positioned on the monitor |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:13 am Post subject: |
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more interesting things
the IBM PS/2 got a line of red LEDs inside, pehaps for debug usage??? |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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few stairs to the human biology area
another waiting-for-death species -- Macintosh IIci with a modified monitor, touch screen was installed for keyboardless input |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: |
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back to the ground floor the computer lab....
behind the thick glass is an dissected IBM PS/2, with the original ESDI harddisk
the PS/2 30/386 was already replaced with a new touch screen computer |
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sammyc
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: |
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Very smart stuff there. Was it expensive?
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:40 am Post subject: |
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Finally to the ground floor -- computer chip manufacturing
there are picture boards with the die pic of three intel cpus and motorola 68000.....which I forgot to take a picture of
I think I spot a 4004 with grey traces in the 4004 board
If you follow the description on the board, i486 is i386 + i387 + additional logic |
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| sammyc wrote: | | Very smart stuff there. Was it expensive? |
No, I just pay $15 HKD for entry
Just kidding
i don't know how much those things worth as they are owned by the museum, not me |
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sammyc
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: |
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AH, you saved the best stuff until last. Do they have a CPU collection?
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x86sniper
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| sammyc wrote: | | AH, you saved the best stuff until last. Do they have a CPU collection? |
too bad they haven't
but....if you include those on the motherboard, the N80386-20 on the IBM planar is the only one |
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sammyc
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Does anyone speak English there?
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