A prototype magnet support for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The magnet supports have to bridge a difference in temperature of 300 degrees. Electrical connections, instrumentation and the posts on which the magnets stand are the only points where heat transfer can happen through conduction. They are all carefully designed to draw off heat progressively. The posts are made of 4 mm thick glass-fibre– epoxy composite material. Each post supports 10 000 kg of magnet and leaks just 0.1 W of heat. This piece required a long development period which started in the early ’90s and continued until the end of the decade. The wires next to the support post are wires from strain gauges, which are employed to measure the stress level in the material when the support is mechanically loaded. These supports are mechanically optimized to withstand a weight of up to 100Kn (10 tons) while being as thin as possible to minimize conduction heat to magnets. This is the reason why the stress measurement was extensively done in the prototyping phase.
A plan of magnetic core memory with 64x64 bits (4Kb) as used in a CDC 6600. The very first CDC 6600 was delivered to CERN in 1965 and was the fastest supercomputer of its time.
The most powerful IBM computer system of its time, the IBM 3090 high-end processor of the IBM 308X computer series incorporated one-million-bit memory chips.
It was the first member of the VAX family of computers, the first commercially available 32-bit computer and the first MIPS (one million instructions per second). It is a family of abandoned mini-computers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The name "VAX" comes from an acronym for "Virtual address eXtension" as the successor to the PDP-11. The computer and its operating system (VMS) were designed from scratch. The result was a truly reliable, powerful and user-friendly system. In addition its affordable price has enabled many institutions and universities to acquire it.
The AM29116 is a microprogrammed 16-bit processor.
It was essentially a folded sheet metal box with an internal circuit board, but Gandalf Box was a form of modem, a terminal host selector that allowed computer terminals to connect to a number of computers, Host computers via a single interface. Gandalf Technologies was a Canadian data communications company based in Ottawa. It was best known for their modems and terminal adapters. The rapid development of ethernet, remote access and subsequent high-speed connections killed technology and the company went bankrupt in 1997.