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Can you please post a picture of the server so we can see all the sweet LEDs on network cards?




I call foul. This doesn't even look like it's powered up.

Edit: Wow. 3.5 years on HN and my first down-voted post. I guess I should have added a sarcasm tag or stick with keeping comments "safe".


> 3.5 years on HN and my first down-voted post

Honest? Then, if I were you, I'd try to be a bit less consensual from time to time. I got plenty of downvotes. I would hope even pg get his share, that would show sane critical thinking.





What about http://imgur.com/BOaFPtn

So compact yet so powerful.


Ah the good old days, when computers were so simple and yet so mysterious and exciting at the same time.


I don't know, I still find them exciting -- although PC hardware isn't as fun as it used to be.


Not one of these?

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-bendix-g15.jpg

[one of the first computer models I ever wrote for - a three address machine: first a source operand, second destination, third address of next instruction. The memory was a rotating drum]


Mel?



That would have been really cool, and a true hackers machine, but I imagine that the days when LISP needs (or benefits from) custom hardware are long gone.


Love the symmetry of the photo...triangle. (I suspect with the orange background that it was taken at the YC office? http://m.inc.com/?incid=96)


Haha, epic response.


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Impressive.




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