How Many Hertz Do These Computers Clock In At?

Posted on April 11, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Some old school computers, observed at the MIT Museum, Cambridge MA:

For surveyors:

Some Mickey Mouse:

Computing for the visually impared, circa 1950:

A fashion statement:

Old school flight computer:

Drive faster!

Cardiac computing:

Proto-mobile:

Wound tightly:

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6 Responses to How Many Hertz Do These Computers Clock In At?

  1. Cassidy Frazee – There's a lot about me you'd probably like to know; if so, ask. You'll be surprised at some of the things I might tell you . . .
    Cassidy Frazee says:
    April 11, 2014 at 11:46 am

    I miss my old slide ruler.

  2. mrtoads
    mrtoads says:
    April 11, 2014 at 12:13 pm

    nanoHz? femtoHz? I was painfully slow with my slide rule, although part of it was that I had fumbly fingers. When I could afford my first Texas Instruments, I was pretty darned happy.

  3. Robert L Bell says:
    April 11, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    I used to spend hours at that Museum, they always had dazzling displays.

    Thanks for the memories.

  4. joe mccauley says:
    April 11, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    I still have a few slide rules around. It killed me to throw away a batch that I had hoarded at school, but there was no reason to keep them around. I did use them to demonstrate that I was not a human calculator, that my ability to multiply, divide and take roots was just my familiarity with logs.

  5. kaleberg
    kaleberg says:
    April 12, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    What, no K&E Analon dimensional slide rule? It did dimensional analysis e.g. force = mass * acceleration. The design was quite clever.

  6. thave56
    Rajah says:
    April 14, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    I sentimentally remember using the flight computer. Then bulky hand held GPS were coming in….

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