Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 (righto.com)In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit. But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn’t completely analyze the chip, so don’t expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.)
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Total Recall (1990 film) (Wikipedia)Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, and Gary Goldman. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside. Based on the 1966 short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick, Total Recall tells the story of Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger), a construction worker who receives an implanted memory of a fantastical adventure on Mars. He subsequently finds his adventure occurring in reality as agents of a shadow organization try to prevent him from recovering memories of his past as a Martian secret agent aiming to stop the tyrannical regime of Martian dictator Vilos Cohaagen (Cox).