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08 september 2013

Barack Obama Coiffure

A barbershop in Mali. Photograph: Andrew Esiebo

Source: The Guardian > The barbershops of west Africa (Guardian Africa network series)

See more of Andrew Esiebo's photographs

USSR. Armenia.

Via Socialism Expo's photostream (Flickr)

Getting Started With the Apple QuickTake 200 Camera

Getting Started With the QuickTake 200 Camera

The QuickTake 200 is an easy-to-use digital camera that produces highquality images you can quickly transfer to your Macintosh Operating System (Mac OS)–based computer. Using your computer you can manipulate and modify the images to suit your purposes. The QuickTake 200 is a valuable tool for graphic artists, publishing professionals, and anyone who wants to use images to communicate.

IMPORTANT
Save this manual. It contains important safety and operating instructions. This chapter contains information about system requirements; installing the QuickTake software, the storage card, and the batteries; and setting the date and time.

(Manual here)

Magna Mater Goddess... Great Mother Goddess „Божицата Голема Мајка“

MACE means - woman, mother in all Indo-European languages
DON - DION(A) in Indo-European language means God, Goddess
MACEDONIA is a land of the Great Mother Goddess (Magna Mater), Mother Earth, Goddess of Fertility, Birth Mother, Gaia.
The cult of the Great Mother is probably the oldest of all religions.The earliest Neolithic sculptures of the Great Mother (Magna Mater) dates from between 6500-3500 BC. It is a time of matriarchate in cultures of the Mediterranean, but also to the East, and is associated with the principle of fertility, birth and creation. In time, the Great Mother would become the major link for inter-relating the spirit of the Neolithic man in Macedonia and left deep traces in the culture of this land. Today we are witnessing a strong mark that left matriarchate on indigenous cultures and beliefs, which are preserved in the name of Macedonia.

Tumba Madzari, Museum of Macedonia (MK)

Via Panoramio > Стојан Тоше Николовс

Тумба (Маџари)

First hard disk

vintage everyday: Old Photos of the First Generation Of Computers:

First hard disk

The rotating drum technology allowed ERA to deliver the world’s first production stored-program computer (ATLAS – ERA 1101) to a customer site in October 1950. The engineers making the installation delivery to the National Security Agency predecessor were Frank Mullaney and Jack Hill. As shown in the photo below, these drum products came in various sizes. They were first used in several classified processors, then in the early 1100 computer series and the UNIVAC SS-80 and SS-90 computers. Dr. Cohen and Sid Rubens are credited with patenting the rotating magnetic drum. The drum development engineers and management shown in this early 50’s photo, left to right are: William Keye, Arnold Hendrickson, Robert Perking, Frank Mullaney, Dr. Arnold Cohen, and John ‘Jack’ Hill.

07 september 2013

The Valley that Rudolph and Sletten Built

Hewlett Packard Buildings 52/53, Steven’s Creek and Lawrence Expressway, Santa Clara
Architect: Clark, Stromquist & Sandstrom
Photograper: Martin Wax
© R&S limited; Courtesy of Kenneth G. Sletten

Apple Research and Development Campus, 856,000 square feet, 1993
Architect: Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabuam, Inc; BAR Architects(interior) and Gensler Architecture and Design (interior)
Photographer: Marvin Wax
© R&S limited; Courtesy of Kenneth G. Sletten

(Computer History Museum | @CHM : The Valley that Rudolph and Sletten Built)

Programmed Data Processor-1

Programmed Data Processor-1
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
1961

This is the marketing brochure for the DEC PDP-1. Announced in 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) PDP-1 marked a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design: it was the first commercial computer that focused on interaction with the human user rather than the efficient use of computer cycles. Basing his designs on MIT's Lincoln Laboratory TX-0 and TX-2 computers, Ben Gurley designed the 18-bit machine in under three–and–a–half months. DEC produced only 50 of these machines. It also had an optional high-resolution graphical display that MIT students used to play Spacewar!, the first interactive computer video game.

(PDP-1 Restoration Program - Computer History Museum)