Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Imagine wandering through an exhibition of artistic textiles and stumbling across a Navajo rug that looked for all the world like an Intel CPU. Well, that's exactly what happened to computer historian Ken Shirriff as he recently sauntered through the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
The first clue is that the rug differs from traditional designs in not being symmetrical. Turns out, the wool weaving was a piece commissioned by Intel in the 1990s for the the American Indian Science & Engineering Society. The design also seemed to differ from the original chip layout in being a mirror image. But as it happens, the weave is actually reversible with no true front or back. Shirriff realised that the The National Gallery had simply displayed the piece the wrong way round.
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