[sidebar, non EV so OT, but topic related > Computers were new, a "portable" computer weighed 40+ lbs< https://www.google.com/search?q=first+portable+computers&tbm=isch Images of the early portables, that were pre-windows type, that usually were mono-colored text screens. It was the lead-acid gel-cell batteries, and heavy/bulky 5" floppy drives that made them all the more clunky ...
> Larry, Darryl and Darryl< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhart#Larry.2C_Darryl.2C_and_Darryl Reference to a comedy TV show, "This is my brother Larry, my brother Darryl, and my other brother Darryl" ... As a hp CE (Customer Engineer) for many years, I saw all the computers, large and small, huge and multi-clustered (hp or not), inside hp and at outside customer sites ... I can relate as I also had to lug around heavy/clunky computers (good-thing I was young then), and the naming of same. Every site had its series of names for each computer system (or server). It was how users and operators refereed to each. Naming ranged from planets, renown people of history, popular movie characters, (seemed like every company had a system named 'Yoda'), and as each new movie genre came out, so did the naming of any new computer (it was only at Fed Government or a telephone company site that I saw boring numbers used to name their computers). One low-cost small-business/mom-n-pop hp server product had a project name (the code name it had before it was sold to the public) as Mighty-Mouse. Though for legal reasons, it was not named that when sold, customers named theirs MM because they liked the character (and the idea of getting a lot of power in a small package/price). When processors and networking became more powerful, downsizing or the reduction of the number of servers ensued, down to only a few powerful systems, but they had kept and re-used the most popular system names. Usually those were names of characters from movies. The naming of AI hardware, like computer system or robots has a long history with humans. As time progresses, humans will continue to honor their abilities, showing their respect by naming them. ] {brucedp.150m.com} - On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 03:13 AM, Chris Tromley wrote: > ​Back in the old days, comic book heroes weren't a popular phenomenon. > Computers were new, a"portable" computer weighed 40+ lbs and filled an > entire desktop. We had three of them on carts in our lab. We called > them > Larry, Darryl and Darryl. > > (Sorry if some EVDLers don't get that pop culture reference from > another > time.) - -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-Tesla-manufacturing-robots-named-after-X-Men-superheroes-tp4672732p4672733.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
