Truly MEGA pixel

Mike McCarty · 12-02-2004, 10:36 AM

For those of you who need that really big print ...

www.gigapxl.org

Holly Snyder · 12-06-2004, 12:36 PM

I finally looked at this website. Hard to fathom it becoming digital someday, but I hope it will in my lifetime. I'm particularly impressed with the bridge photo, and the resolution with which you can see the guy in the distance.

As far as keeping an open mind, check out this picture from a 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine. The quote says " Scientists from the RAND Corporations have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use".

Mike McCarty · 12-06-2004, 01:18 PM

I like the steering wheel.

In a different life I was a computer operator on an IBM 360 mod 30, I think it was. It was not quite this crude but occupied a space almost this big. It had 32K, and when we upgraded to a 64K machine they put the old CPU on the service elevator, took it down to the street where they pushed it into the back of a large Mayflower van lines trailer. When the movers turned and walked back out of the trailer the CPU (then valued at millions I was told) followed them out and did a nose dive off the back of that van and on to Milam street in downtown Houston. Quite a stink that caused.

Such progress and still we struggle to make a beer which tastes great and is less filling.

Holly Snyder · 01-08-2005, 08:48 AM

In regards to the supposed home computer... oops.

urbanlegend

Mike McCarty · 01-08-2005, 09:16 AM

How bout that, it really was a steering wheel.

John Reidy · 01-08-2005, 09:50 AM

So much for the theory that objects get greyer and softer as they go further into the distance.

Chuck Yokota · 01-10-2005, 12:30 PM

A year ago, I worked for Oce Display Graphics, which manufactures photo-quality large-format printers (75" wide by unlimited roll-fed length).

http://www.oceusa.com/main/product_g...=1105374182790

David Bottoni · 01-10-2005, 02:14 PM

A buddy of mine has a digital printing operation with a solvent based printer that prints 16' wide by whatever length required. They print out those banners that you see hanging off the side of high rise buildings.