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1 year ago, BP should have had this computer

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:00:53 +0000

As a matter of fact, many years ago, Texas Instruments was proud of the computation power of its portable calculators explaining how easy it was to check whether or not there was a risk of explosion from over-pressure in an oil rig.

TI solution to BP problems

Precisely one year ago, BP should have followed this excellent advice and checked about the status of the Deepwater Horizon platform before it became an oil spill.

Computer games before marketing

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:28:38 +0000

Many years ago, computer video games was already requiring advertising, but there was only a skeleton of marketing. Advertising costs were probably much lower than what today’s blockbusters budgets reach: A mere list of prices.

Inflatable Bra

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:19:57 +0000

This Japanese ad presents us the very useful (?) inflatable bra which allows to choose your volume depending on circumstances and according to the control. It’s even better than Wonderbra…

YouTube link

The invention of big RAM memory

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:12:50 +0000

Before we could discuss of whether or not it’s useful to have more than 4 giga-bytes of RAM memory in a PC, some people had to work with slightly less space.

MOSTEK 4k RAM in a 16-pin package!

Cool ad

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:02 +0000