@Stinson_108 @mattblaze
I've hiked at Mt Umunhum (named after humingbirds), good area, great views.
At Computer History Museum we have part of a SAGE computer and some consoles, which have a unique feature I've seen in no other computer gear.
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computing/6/120
Also, a model:
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computing/6/122/509
JohnMashey
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AN/FPS-24 Radar Tower, Mt. Umunhum, Los Gatos, CA, 2024. -
Efficiency is the removal of redundancy.@ekuber
Agreed. Years ago, a group of us visited the NUMMI car factory, joint venture of GM and Toyota. They started with talk about place & methods, emphasizing importance of Just in Time logistics… and were quite embarrassed when, during our visit, the production line stopped because some truck coming from L.A. got delayed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
The brittleness of hyper-efficient systems leading to societal collapse was one of the themes of A Deepness in the Sky: