Gammitin (Ben) 💾This is what they took from us! 😭
Tomasz Oryński@Gammitin those are nice, but seriously, the peak in the computer body design has been reached in 1959 in Poland and nobody ever came even close to this:
Strypey
Tom Harrington
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@atomicbird @TOrynski @Gammitin @jackbrewster I was thinking this too, Electronic, nerdy, but with a bassline...
King of Tors@Lazarou @atomicbird @TOrynski @Gammitin @jackbrewster same, which then led me to "best design to achieve what?" in my brain. And then, but it doesn't have adjustable legs so it's only good for users whose height it is designed for. Yeah, I'm that guy. Sorry. It's friggin cool AF.
Franklin Logan
Raul@TOrynski @Gammitin I find that band on the floor quite interesting in itself. It holds 6 "bits" per column: first four below, then 2 above that continuous line of smaller dots. Seems similar to perforated cards, just in continuous form, and for nibbles instead of bytes, maybe with some error correction included?
In any case, 6 bits per column, each column maybe 1 cm wide, so the band would hold a mind-blowing 600 bits / 75 bytes per meter :P
@raulinbonn @Gammitin I don't know much about tapes. I might have a piece of a tape for Polish computer Odra somewhere. I might check how many dots in the row it had
But if this is not correct it is also possible it is just an artists impression, as this picture is from the museum and it's part of a decoration
johnkozak@johnkozak @raulinbonn @Gammitin i included the Wikipedia link for those interested in more than just the design :-)
@johnkozak @raulinbonn @Gammitin you might want to read more about Jacek Karpiński, he was an amazing guy with some fantastic achievements.
Nina Kalinina@raulinbonn @TOrynski @Gammitin 6-bit punched tape was a thing. The real thing was far smaller than the replica on the photo. It could be fun to see what it says :)
-karlos-@nina_kali_nina @raulinbonn @TOrynski @Gammitin
It shouldn’t be difficult to decode. See Encoding here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape
It shouldn’t be difficult to decode. See Encoding here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape
Phil@karlos @nina_kali_nina @raulinbonn @TOrynski @Gammitin - if it's 6 bit it could be IBM BCD, which itself wasn't ever completely standardised.
Bill@raulinbonn @TOrynski @Gammitin
If the pattern on the floor represents paper tape, the small holes would be for the drive sprocket.
Looks familiar, like the paper tape on a TeleType Model 33.
RealGene ☣️@raulinbonn @TOrynski @Gammitin
That's good old paper tape, magnified about 6X.
The thin continuous line of dots is where a tractor gear pulled the tape through the reader or punch. The data was read mechanically, with little pins on levers that would read the holes, or optically in "high speed" readers.
That's good old paper tape, magnified about 6X.
The thin continuous line of dots is where a tractor gear pulled the tape through the reader or punch. The data was read mechanically, with little pins on levers that would read the holes, or optically in "high speed" readers.
Arthur van Leeuwen
Wouter@nukleos
John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁
Dan Morgan 
jramskov
El Dado InquietoI guess when it was designed it was futurepunk :)
But it's worth noting that while the computer itself is of course designed by the computer engineer (notably: Jacek Karpiński), the body was created by the team of leading designers and artists from the Art Academy.
EndicottRoad59@TOrynski Looks like a space ship from the 1950s.
embix
Enema Cowboy
Mira
Quokka
Chris Mackay 🇨🇦
Markus Redeker 🐘@tantramar No punchcards, it is an analog computer.
For a computer, not bad.
Look here if you want proper space ship controls :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOwI8RQuObnrJoSPbGfLV_q5xi8hlHJqz
And - yes - you alert observer ... That thing iiiis a flat iron.
