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Using several square miles of flat farmland, 50-ton megaliths are dragged into position along a spiral array. Positions with megaliths have the value 1, and positions without megaliths have the value 0.
A druid in an oxcart does the reading.
Stonehenge - The mother of all computers
http://www.guardian...604,1004737,00.html
Gerald Hawkins, author of Stonehenge Decoded [Brummo, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Peasant's Eye View
http://www.windows....rse/uts/carnac.html
Wall, ahl ask 'eem, but 'ees alreahdy ghot wan! [Don Quixote, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Heh. Nice one Mr. D.
(except, aren't hard drive tracks concentric circles?) |
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A hard drive has problems if something causes it to oxidize. This proposal has similar problems if the ox dies. |
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(+) I like it!
Could we have a Stonehenge CD as well? A sequence of concentric ditches with deeper pits in them. A druid starts running in the center, for every pit he/she falls into, the druid issues a scream. For each lap, the druid must run a little faster (to maintain "rotation time"). Don't forget error correction. |
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Can I load Windows2000BC on it? |
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It will be hell to defrag it though. |
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I guess the only risk of disk crash would be an earthquake. |
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Baked by Terry Pratchett. One of the earlier Discworld novels, with Rincewind. |
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Hey! This idea needs some [Steve DeGroof]. |
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Wow. You showed up so fast people are going to think we're the same person. |
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Don't forget your surge protection. I'd want an ass that
could hang a few megajoules. |
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"I've got one of those new 4 giga-tonne computers." |
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Uh Huh, the ultimate in HARD drives, imagine the removable drive version. 40,000 peasants with ropes and log rollers. Actually, forget the druid, use the sun, then it's an optical drive. |
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Nicked from Terry Pratchet. Something about it being cheaper to build a new standing stone circle than upgrade an old one. |
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Oh, Happy Day! Found 3 good ideas in a row!
Defragmenting this hard drive could lead to missing - |
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Defragmenting this particular hard drive might leave the
place in runes. |
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EARTHQUAKE!!!
and my data was all scrambled... |
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Is the speed of this hard drive measured in Minutes per Rev (MPR) not RPM? |
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Apple's version would be
transparent with titanium accents.
We should probably take a closer
look at all the glass and steel
buildings around One Infinate
Loop in Cupertino and decode
that. |
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The Stonehenge hard drive could
have all sorts of input devices like
Firewire, Earthwire, Airwire,
Waterwire and Aetherwire. Also it
would have USBO Universal
Sacrificial Burnt Offering. + |
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"A druid in an oxcart does the reading"
The forerunner to the cereal bus presumably? |
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"Hello, Helpdesk, can I help you?"
"Yes, my computer hard drive has crashed"
"Oh dear, and how did this problem manifest itself?"
"Well, six oxcarts, two rams and three druids met two megaliths head on and there's rock, animals and druids everywhere and I've got to get my Astrologloical prediction presentation out to the village chief by four o'clock. What can I do?"
"I suggest we send round an engineer to recover what data he can onto a portable stone tablet, and you can finish your presentation off your lap-top"
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This technology has proven reliable. It has a MTBF of 1000 years and a lifetime of 10,000 years. |
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I'll just groan here for all of us... |
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LOL! good idea. One should be built. Althogh I don't think it would run "Quake 3 arena" very well. The GUI (graphical user interface) would be pretty interesting to see... ideas??? |
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Oops, my bad. Still in capture the flag mode. Cn't spnd ltz v tm typn wrds r u gt sht, u no? You type to long and you lose, so you shorten things, the extra questions marks are just to make sure everyone clearly sees your making a request. It's all a tactical thing. I better stop rambling, gonna check out a few more posts and hit the sack. Excuse my informality, well... Bonuit! |
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At least that finally explains the Easter Island and riddle of the sphinx mysteries.....obviously these were just upgrades..... |
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Finally! Hardware able to keep pace with Windows. |
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Well, "Quake 3 Arena" is a game. A first person shooter. It was the best first person shooter in its day. Mind you it still is good and has been the premier 3d engine in many games such as "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and the "Unreal tornament" series. Its graphics are begining to show its age though. Well, now you know... |
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This reminds me of what Charlene did in her garden. She had the idea of planting stones, because she didn’t have much luck with the normal things, so she had these enormous rocks brought in. She doesn’t live too far from one of those prehistoric sites, and some stuff went missing there the week before she did her garden, but she said that was a coincidence. Anyway, she planted them in a spiral, and one day I walked it with a tape recorder, saying ‘who-boy’ each time I passed a stone, and then I played it back at a really high speed, and it turned out it was her ATM code.
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Confess that you did this in the buff on a Pluterday! |
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I just realized that this is the perfect peripheral for the Mushroom Computing idea. |
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Crop circles could work too. |
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