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Kodak makes Ektachrome slide film again! And by chance I got a "new" camera... It's exactly the same model I bought 40 years ago as my first photo camera. But the new one was hardly used all that time.
So i't time to use it again :-)
All my photos from 1987 to 2000 are slides (Kodachrome) and now I will add some more. Since I also have a slide scanner, it's easier now to share them with friends.

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Not exactly PCB art, but I would call it Operator Manual Art :-) This is from a Tektronix P6451 "Data Acquisition Probe" from 1978. That's an 8-bit probe for a logic analyzer 7d01.

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PCB Art: Fighter jets on a Cisco MDS9710 board (that's a Fibrechannel switch with up to 384 ports). I assume the jets illustrate the insane multi-Terabits per second throughput of that system...

1 year ago | [YT] | 41

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PCB Art: Mummy on a Harley (HP server DL585 G5)

1 year ago | [YT] | 24

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Erlebniswelt Toggenburg... the museum of toys, trains, motorbikes and wooden art :-)

1 year ago | [YT] | 13

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Another PCB art discovered. This is from a Compaq Proliant 8500 CPU/memory backplane. The "strong arm" :-)
(Please notice the "PROC 8 label. Yes this was a 8 CPU machine!)

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PWJ226 - Proliant 8500 - Video error
When talking about the PCI slots in that system, I say they are 16bit and 32bit wide. That is of course wrong. The short PCI connectors are 32bit and the large ones are 64bit.

1 year ago | [YT] | 25

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A short description on the photo before... The yellow cable is RG58 50-Ohm "Thin Wire Ethernet" and the black cable is RG59 75-Ohm from video surveillance cams. They look similar but the RG59 is a bit thicker.
Funny part is that the RG59 video cables are still in use, but not for analog video. We installed converters and now there is 1Gbit/s Ethernet with PoE on each of these (bidirectional).
We did that because it was too complicated to replace the cables. The converters work very well!

1 year ago | [YT] | 18

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If you know what that cable is, you are probably as old as myself... :-)

I invented a new profession: Network Archeologist. That's someone who removes all those inactive cables that still fill up the conduits. Without damaging the active ones of course!

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