Able2Know.com Webcams - Live pictures of the datacenter!

Cool. Speaking of cool, there's gotta be a helluva airconditioning system behid all that. Glad its not on my electric bill ... just powering that server farm has gotta run a hefty sum a month, without even thinkin' about the rest of the building.

these are the guys in texas? rack something?

In the second picture, I am corraling the hamsters. Pity the camera's gone dark.

What are those last two pics, the hamster cell block?

LOL - funny stuff

TOS jail

In the first picture, the third row back, and to the right....I'm using that second unit right now as we speak.

My computer just told me, he fall in deep love with one of those maschines.

Computer folk are VERY strange....

They need powerful coolers, don't they?

My god, it's like watching paint dry.

Watching paint dry is FUN!

I tried watching it, but I was dying of suspense. I think I will return to counting the carpet fibers in my office. So much more relaxing...

I know. It's riveting! I can't get enough of it. Been staring at it all day!

I'm pathetic.
Those pix make me think of my childhood.
Early 1960's.
Saturdays.
Hamburger had to take care of me.
He'd take me along to the computer room at work. He'd program and de-bug and do stuff with giant reels.
I'd play with punch cards.
I still love the smell of a real computer room.
Pathetic.

I'm having a total sense-memory flashback.
Where are my crayons and the pink punch cards?

"deja vue , all over again " ! ebeth is right; it looks somewhat like the first computer i worked on (well, not quite) ! it was an IBM 1401, 16 k of storage , two tape units and a HUGE PRINTER and CARD READER ; and the airconditioner was almost as big as the computer. the tape units had large open tape reels and the tapes often would finish about 90% of a job and decide to rip , argh ! but the printer could play "anchors aweigh " if fed a set of punched cards that had been prepared carefully . even the chairman of the board would on occasion bring some of his buddies into the " IBM-ROOM " and ask us to play "anchors aweigh " for them. (note : in those days -early 60's- it was not called "data processing or info-system"; even my title was "IBM DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR', even though i worked for an insurance company. IBM sure meant something in those days). hbg

hbg, Thanks for reminding us that we did have some progress during the past 50 years. LOL

Noisy, they are noisy, aren't they?