Caption CERN Contest Week 3

Week 3: 2/17/2015 - 9pm PDT 2/24/2015

Behind all that gleaming stainless steel high energy physics equipment were rooms full of controls, computers, and data acquisition equipment. This scientist looks a bit perplexed as he examines a display. What do you think is going on here?

For all you Retrocomputing fans out there, who can name some of the classic 'iron' in this shot?

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EncoreTech wrote 02/25/2015 at 00:37

The "HAL 9000" toy from 1968: Another marketing failure due to price and shipping constraints.

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EncoreTech wrote 02/25/2015 at 00:16

- You call that a radar screen?!

" No sir, we call it Mr Coffee. ...*BEEP*....Care for some?"

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EncoreTech wrote 02/24/2015 at 23:15

Obamacare mainframe, Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of AP.

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EncoreTech wrote 02/24/2015 at 23:03

"Hmm... WHY is this thing counting down..??"

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EncoreTech wrote 02/24/2015 at 22:57

The first "giga-pet" circa 1965. Photo courtesy of Bandai.

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glboyle wrote 02/24/2015 at 21:09

All this just to watch Porn???

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No_Hazmats wrote 02/24/2015 at 17:23

In this early experiment in Artificial Intelligence, Researcher John E. Cache asked the Turingesque question" Who Am I?". After a long interval of clicking and whirring, the advanced thinking machine displayed the only answer it could: "ELVIS IS IN THE BUILDING!"

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DainBramage wrote 02/23/2015 at 02:57

The smell of burnt flesh hung heavily in the air as Tom reviewed the command sequence he had run through the institute's new talking computer. To his horror, he realized that he had misspelled "enunciate" as "evaporate", leaving an empty chair where Michael had been sitting moments before.

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coen wrote 02/22/2015 at 20:11

5 more minutes and I should have free cable!

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coen wrote 02/22/2015 at 20:11

5 more minutes and I should have free cable!

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coen wrote 02/22/2015 at 20:11

5 more minutes and I should have free cable!

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coen wrote 02/22/2015 at 20:11

5 more minutes and I should have free cable!

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RoboPandaPDX wrote 02/22/2015 at 00:24

I think i found the bug!

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RoboPandaPDX wrote 02/22/2015 at 00:24

Now its all together. How long to install windows?

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RoboPandaPDX wrote 02/22/2015 at 00:21

Awww, Skynet was so cute back then!

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RoboPandaPDX wrote 02/22/2015 at 00:19

and this machine tells me how much radiation i am being exposed to by these other machines.

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RoboPandaPDX wrote 02/22/2015 at 00:16

Well there's your problem right there!

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Jarrett wrote 02/20/2015 at 16:23

"Press any key to continue? Where's the any key?"

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jlbrian7 wrote 02/20/2015 at 04:23

http://cds.cern.ch/record/41130?ln=en

The British are just days away from discovering what makes the perfect cup of tea!

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THX1082 wrote 02/19/2015 at 00:04

Paul after being promoted to lead programmer. Unfortunately for Paul, his programming skills were inversely proportional to his fashion sense.

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