Comic 794 - π
1st Aug 2022, 12:00 AM in Underground
π
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Microraptor edit delete
Microraptor
π was built in the late 70s by the US Air Force in West Berlin, and later got transferred to Bimsstein Airbase.
Since it's a very old computer though, nowadays it doesn't get used anymore.

However, this doesn't mean that it's... completely inactive...

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Announcement:

I'll do just bi-weekly updates for a while.
(Maybe for the whole of August, maybe not quite so long.)
User comments:
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
While tape storage is still a big thing for high tech computers in 2021, sadly the didn't preserve the style.

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Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
This kinda looks like a futuristic jukebox!
jawbone edit delete reply
jawbone
I visited a facility in the late 1970s that had a robotic tape archiving system which could hold terabytes of data, but the read/write speed of the tapes limited the throughput rather than the fetch/mount/unmount/store cycle time.

Nowadays five terabytes can fit in a shirt pocket and reads and writes at USB3 speeds.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
It's quite astonishing how computer tech has progressed within just a few decades!
jawbone edit delete reply
jawbone
All hail Moore's law!
spacekrispies edit delete reply
spacekrispies
I wonder what those 'categories' mean.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
I first came up with this (not at all fleshed out yet) category system in the context of a scene idea that currently only exists in my head, in which the time-traveling Future!Cleo mentions Donna Panks to be a category A3 person...
spacekrispies edit delete reply
spacekrispies
I know what it's like to have a myriad of concepts swim around in One's head for years and years without coming to fruition... only to, one day, all spill out onto a page without warning!
I've had some of my best (and very worst0 ideas for comics that way!
lirvilas edit delete reply
lirvilas
I know who the B3 person is
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Let's hope for the sake of whoever this person is that the "B" doesn't stand for "expendaBle" then...