Che Guava 3,099 Posted May 17 Report Share Posted May 17 1976 - the year the Cray-1 Supercomputer was made commercially available (8.9meg of RAM, 300meg storage, 5.5tons), and Heller released (and I built) this little Bucker here.... Emerging recently relatively unscathed from a box of self dismantling kit parts, this 'Old' meister just needed a propellor, a wheel, and a quick hose-down to return it to its 1976 condition (the pre-restored photos are in WiP somewhere). I rigged it, added a bit of cockpit detail, moved the tailplane up (Heller got that bit wrong) and replaced the hand-painted grunhertz tail emblem with one drawn up on my MacPro2.1 (2008, 8gb ram, 2x4terrabyte hard drives, weight, well, I can lift it with one hand). So now it goes on the 'Shelf of Done' at last! 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gorby 8,666 Posted May 17 Report Share Posted May 17 Niiiice. The first mainframe computer I worked on (1982) had 1 meg of RAM. At the time people would say "wow... 1 megabyte!". 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Walrus 7,384 Posted May 17 Report Share Posted May 17 Very smart, Che, totally love it! Always liked the look of the Bucker Bu133 but never got around to acquiring the Heller kit. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Che Guava 3,099 Posted May 17 Author Report Share Posted May 17 2 hours ago, Gorby said: The first mainframe computer I worked on (1982) had 1 meg of RAM. At the time people would say "wow... 1 megabyte!". The first computer I encountered was when the Graphics company I worked for bought a Quantel Paintbox in about 1982. It cost about £220,000, came with its own operator who earned a lot more than our head designer/illustrator (who flounced off in hissy fit to set up his own company) and it had to have its own basement rented off-site it took up so much space. Soon afterwards, a graphics salesman friend let me see a PC based graphics system he was pushing which came it at a mere £36,000. Truth was, it wasn't very good, but my company checked out a few other systems and bought one at £78,000 - IBM AT, 256meg of ram, 20meg hard drive. I asked how long that would last till it filled up, and was told "Brain the size of a planet, you'll never need any more space. I've never trusted a computer salesman since. The Quantel was in the bin within 3 years. I got the job of operating the IBM system since I was the only artist who didn't fall asleep during the demo in a darkened basement! 1 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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