Speaking of old computers...

thermionic

Here's a map of the entire internet (or ARPANet as it was called then) in 1973:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzWLR1MW8AExkeD.jpg:large

I don't remember them , but the name PDP-10 rings a bell.

57Deluxe

which one was the porn on??

quarky

57Deluxe said:

which one was the porn on??

The one next to the one with the stuff about the fake moon landings

Nitefly

Interesting how many different mainframe manufacturers there are in that - all the PDPs are DEC (Digital Equipment Corp), the 3xx's are IBM, the B6700 is Burroughs, H316 and H645 would be Honeywell.  

There's a TX2 - would that be Texas Instruments?  (Ditto the TIP ones).

Many of those are consigned to history now.

Axe_meister

Now this is cool. A working Atari console built in Minecraft
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/1598640/somebody-built-an-atari-2600-emulator-inside-minecraft

ICBM

Axe_meister said:

Now this is cool. A working Atari console built in Minecraft
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/1598640/somebody-built-an-atari-2600-emulator-inside-minecraft

The only problem is the last line. If someone does actually build a working model of Minecraft within Minecraft it will cause a micro-loop in the space-time continuum and a vortex will develop, sucking in the entire universe.

I'd better tell my daughter to be careful...

Sporky

ICBM said:

The only problem is the last line. If someone does actually build a working model of Minecraft within Minecraft it will cause a micro-loop in the space-time continuum and a vortex will develop, sucking in the entire universe.

It's like building a model village of the model village you live in. You have to iterate right down to Planck scales.

PolarityMan

luckily infinite recursion is impossible as due to current OS limitations it will just run out of stack and crash.

PolarityMan

and before anyone says "emulated stack on the heap" in that case it will just run out of virtual storage and the OS will start randomly shooting things until it the problematic process crashes.