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When PCB designers have way too much fun

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HwAoRrDk:

--- Quote ---What is this? This is a GPS receiver made by Trimble, one of the biggest GPS companies. Why is it shaped like an ambulance? Good question. This is a 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993, which was relatively early for consumer GPS tech. On the back is a Motorola 68HC000 and 64k of RAM. Look it even has a little red light on top. And a silk screened steering wheel.

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nctnico:
So cool. Why do I never think of things like that?  :palm:

DavidAlfa:
Before 2000s everything was different. Remember the easter eggs in all kind of software.
Then the companies took IBM path, stone-cold.

TimFox:
I was unable to find an image of this, but I remember that Plessey Semiconductors made a long "bucket brigade" analog shift register (I think it was for LeCroy?) that had to be bent into a Z shape to fit on the chip.
The chip designer had room inside the Z, which looked something like a railroad, so he copied a steam locomotive from his child's coloring book and put it on the substrate.
(Tektronix draftsmen often did the same thing with their schematics, such as a skier going down a diagonal line on a flip-flop circuit.)

coppercone2:

--- Quote from: DavidAlfa on November 04, 2023, 03:09:25 pm ---Before 2000s everything was different. Remember the easter eggs in all kind of software.
Then the companies took IBM path, stone-cold.

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and then ibm basically crashed and burned and employee retention in jobs like that is piss poor and no one knows wtf is going on at those companies because the supposedly 'creative' roles are being cycled through like a malfunctioning carnival carousel because what used to be a fun day at work turned into 'thinking about going home while in a psychotic state due to paperwork and 'opinion management because everyone expects you to be a shady bullshitter and any fun you have might allow someone leverage against the company in some abstract way'. Every day makes you feel like that one day the VP of some companies used to have during a important life changing multinational government merger or something, even if you are only sweeping the floor on a friday. you know, like reagan visiting the soviet union for the first time.

 telephone pole up ass [✓]

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