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Throbac: THrifty Roman numeral BAckwards-looking Computer

by rfarley04 on 11/1/24, 2:54 PM with 9 comments

• by schlauerfox on 11/1/24, 3:48 PM

  How can they only have one low resolution picture and only pictures of the outside?? What display tech does it use? I can't imagine there are Roman Numeral Nixie tubes. https://www.kuenzigbooks.com/pages/books/28672/claude-e-shan... I see Clear Lower, Clear KBD, Clear Upper. 7 'digits' display, but wow if anything needed a manual...

• by CoastalCoder on 11/2/24, 12:27 PM

  So the name is a throwbackronym?

• by mokoshhydro on 11/14/24, 11:13 AM

  Anybody has video of this thing at work?

• by mmastrac on 11/1/24, 3:29 PM

  Claude Shannon was the Fabrice Bellard of his time (or is it the other way around?). If he were around today, his projects would constantly be on HN.

  I am curious to know if there's a gene for these incredibly driven, very intelligent people that also _finish projects_.