Sunday, July 19, 2009
Music
‘79 Rumour: Leaked Docs Of “Compact Disc” Audio Format Using LASERS
11:00PM Brian Lam | From 1979: A source “close to the matter” claims this document outlines a future Audio format that would utilise a tapeless design, and *snort* use lasers as some sort of record needle. Sounds like Bullshit to me. More »
Computers
Cray-1: The Super Computer
6:00PM Wilson Rothman | Seymour Cray’s big super computer was crazy. It’s signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant refrigeration system. More »
Entertainment
Toshiba Even More Officially Gives Up The War, Will Launch BD Player
8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Toshiba, the former leader of Blu-Ray’s enemy HD-DVD camp, is admitting defeat in the most final way they can: By launching a Blu-Ray player. More »
Phones
Nokia Trademarks “C-Series” Of Devices
7:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Nokia’s already got the N-Series (entertainment) and the E-Series (business), but what’s this new business about a recently-trademarked C-Series? More »
Random Stuff
Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims For The Goal
6:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Here’s a photo of Apple Employee #1, Steve Wozniak, as he plays for the Silicon Valley Aftershocks during the Segway Polo World Championships. Woz is one of the most prominent players of this silly and endearing sport. [Christian Science Monitor] More »
Gadgets
6:00AM Brian Lam | The network started to breathe in the 70’s. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC’s labs by Boing Boing Gadgets. Dag Spicer, numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: More »
The Network Before The Internet
6:00AM Brian Lam | The network started to breathe in the 70’s. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC’s labs by Boing Boing Gadgets. Dag Spicer, numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: More »
Hardware
A Pictorial Guide To Computer Hardware
5:15AM Dan Nosowitz | From every kind of memory to A/V input/outputs, processors, and hard drives, this guide shows in easy-to-recognize pictorial form the possible guts in your computer. It’s either a really useful quick guide, or the nerdiest poster we’ve ever seen. [DeviantArt] More »
Vehicles
4:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Many of our Gizmodo ‘79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009’s ass: The Concorde Jet. More »
The Supersonic Concorde Jet: Can We Go Back To 1979?
4:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Many of our Gizmodo ‘79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009’s ass: The Concorde Jet. More » 
