#Agc

[weareravershq]

Rema and Ken on FaceTime 🦇 x 00

[drklordz]

[sakuranightmarez]

Cloud professes his love to Angeal & Genesis on Valentine's Day

he had no idea what day it was

[commodorez]

Block I and a half Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).

This developmental unit was on display at VCF East 9.1 way back in 2014, and I'm not sure whom exactly it belonged to. It's more advanced than a Block I but it isn't quite a Block II

[asamiz]

I need rio amor so bad

[opiumdomain00]

[demonac]

Hey! Sorry if this is too frequently-asked or whatever, but do you know how AGC would have ended, roughly? Like, do you remember your idea of what was up with the pillar?

There was supposed to be a bunch more stuff; they were going to explore a whole new world/plane/whatever, which turned out to be a region of the Plane of Earth (or maybe borderlands, since it still had breathable-though-non-flyable air). Turns out the Endbringer's attempt to bathe the world in flames was blocked by opposing forces from the Plane of Earth, who - since their runes had been destroyed in the new Evil campaign - no longer trusted this material plane world to fend off the forces of the Plane of Fire, and were sending occupying forces via the pillars.

The party would discover that your typical Earth Elemental, on its home plane, was a frightening opponent (cross between Matrix Agents and Tremors) - able to move very quickly through most terrain, your best hope was usually to get up on a "rock outcropping" (this is the plane of earth, so some "true stone" is actually so dense that the elementals can't pass through it) and try to hold still to avoid its tremorsense till it leaves.

They would have found local populations of weird earthplane mortal denizens, and a colony of material plane people - from their world, and/or ones like it - who had spent decades building a fortified outpost, barely eking out a living. They would have gradually uncovered some mysteries about that outpost (with one big twist I'm still keeping to myself), while trying to figure out how to force or convince the Elemental Earth "government(???)" to cease its occupation of their world.

[3utopia3]

[merpmonde]

Sarreguemines station

One more border station between France and Germany, with a bit of a twist. Sarreguemines in Lorraine is, as its name suggests, on one side of the river Sarre or Saar, with Saarbrücken some 17 km downstream in Germany. Between the two runs a cross-border tram-train, which serves as urban transit within Saarbrücken, and as a small regional train beyond.

The vehicles used by the Saarbahn are dual-voltage (750 V DC for city tram lines, 15 kV AC for DB train lines) Flexity Link units, made by Bombardier. It's the third type of tram-train we've come across, having seen the Siemens Avanto in Mulhouse and the Alstom Citadis Dualis in Châteaubriant. Most trams in Saarbrücken are wrapped in some kind of advertisement, this one for a former exhibit at the former Völklingen Ironworks (something I definitely should talk about someday) - not only did the exhibit end in 2024, but the wrapping is dark, making the atmosphere onboard very dull indeed, especially on a grey day! They didn't think this one though!

Only the one track for the Saarbahn is electrified, so the French trains are all Diesel units. On the day I was there, three generations of DMU were present: the most recent bi-mode Regiolis, a Diesel-only AGC set from the early 2000s (top picture), and a pair of A TER railcars which are equipped for German signalling. A few direct Strasbourg-Saarbrücken services run each day with these "saucisses" as they are nicknamed. We've seen these trains before too - the design is identical to the BR 641s DB Regio have near Basel, and these are nicknamed "Walfisch" in German.

[randomerinc]

Ken Carson references 'Emo girl birthday' for his new album 'More Chaos'

[minuswrld]

Madison Beer/AGC

[drklordz]

[lolxoxololo]

Agcagcagc

[commodorez]

Do you have a favorite NASA spacecraft computer?

Not really, no.

There are some cool computers used by NASA for spacecraft, and I'll take any opportunity to post pictures of ones I've seen.

Like the Honeywell Alert 1C out of the X-15

There's also the Apollo Guidance Computer. Always a classic.

Can't forget the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer from the Saturn V Instrument Unit

There are so many other ones that I don't have photos of (I looked). Like the Gemini OBC, Apollo PGNCS, Apollo AGS, the Titan's ASC-15, the IBM System/4 Pi used on Skylab, MOL, and the shuttle...

So many good computers!

[wokeupcold]