Good shot Bridges. 18,000 more containers to figure out what to do with each trip.

Diamond blade. Flip the blade and mount blade after inserting it through the bearing. Saber saw a possibility too.

Since you have experience with pullers, you would simply use a hacksaw with an appropriate blade and cut through the darn thing. If that doesn’t release it, then make another cut and remove a segment of the bearing.

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My wife keeps pestering me to buy or build a robot maid like Rosie (Jetsons). Best I have done was bring Vector Robot into our home. Only 3" tall, but has become a family companion!

Hey Burkphoto,
Those unused punch cards were great for writing notes on the backside and using for markers in books.

In the early to mid 60s, I was one of a few students at Georgia Tech allowed to directly operate their Burroughs 220 computer. It did have a card reader, but I could program it faster for my needs in machine language by flipping switches on the console and reading the neon lamp displays of the registers. It did have storage which was a big tape machine. The printer was fantastic and was incredibly fast! The advances in computer technology over the past 50 or so years is unbelievable, and both a blessing and a curse.

I still have a box of unused punch cards. Sometimes I give a few away to folks who have never seen them. 😃

Beautiful equipment TriX. Thanks for sharing this. When I was a teenager in the late 50s, the Regional Engineering Director for IBM lived across the street from us. He had an extra detached garage he used for storing "junk" parts from the IBM computers. He of course gave me whatever I wanted to play with and he taught me a lot. Computers then were tube-based and the core memory was exactly that ... tiny cores with read, write, sense coils wrapped around then. He said that young women made these by hand because machines could not do it as well. Never understood why, but each core was large enough to see the windings without using a magnifying glass. Advances came quickly after that. A decade later or so, I was interviewing with Dr. Cray and marveling at the incredible achievements happening at CDC. For several reasons, I took a job at TI rather than the one he offered me at CDC. He was a brilliant man! You are a fortunate person TriX to have (and I guess continue to be) been involved with these hyper-super machines!

Thanks. Interesting reading.

It is flops or FLOPS. A FLOP or flop is the second state of a flip-flop. 🤔😉. Sorry, but could resist.

A real possibility TriX, but I fear even more massive code bloating. 😁

Most specifically, a FLOPS means a floating point operation per second. PetaFLOPS = 10^15 floating point operation per second. Now that we are seeing exaFLOPS (10^18 floating point operation per second), I expect that we will achieve zettaFLOPS (10^21 floating point operation per second) perhaps by the end of this decade or the next.

Amen to that. Apple has purchased I understand the entire production of the massive plant in Taiwan that produces 3 nm technology devices. Going from 3 to 2 nm is a big deal. These new machines at the National Labs will advance our modeling an simulation capabilities enormously!

Hi TriX,

Back in the late 60s and early 70s I worked at Texas Instruments in Dallas. TI had a deal with IBM that TI would get the first of each latest machines. As I recall, in 1968 the IBM 360/?? we had enjoyed 4 MB of memory and was soon upgraded to 8 MB. With about 40,000 employees on site at the time (only several thousand engineers), turnaround time was "just" typically three days. Of course, the accounting department took priority on run scheduling! FWIW, in 1971 and after much fighting with the Computer Dept., I was allowed to install a CDC terminal in my work area and my group then enjoyed 10-30 minute turnaround. As I recall, the CDC network had CDC 7600 machines and was a bit faster than the IBM 360 we had ... but turnaround time was even far more important to us. At that time these machines could do perhaps about 35 MFLOPS. Today, FPGAs and GPUs can run at many teraFLOPS!

I saw one that read "Wisdom of age and Treachery beats Youth and Tenacity every time!"