[mycatsnameis]

I'm reminded of the classic Les Nessman quote from WKRP: "With God as my witness I swear I thought turkey's could fly!"

Here it is straight from IBM (I swear the links are for real), the new 970:

with feathers

with more feathers

with a peacock feather

with another peacock feather!

and here's the link to IBM's photo home page just to prove it's legit.

I got these links from As The Apple Turns but they are not a joke as near as I can figure. They are on IBM's web site.

Edit - ATAT was alerted to these pics by a reader. I've tried browsing through the linkson the IBM pic home page to try to find a direct link to these pics but so far I'm unsuccessful. The interesting thing is that all the pics are numbered and the 90-series are found in the "Press" page. All of these are absent from that list though. It goes up to 87 and then continues at 95. I wonder what 88 and 89 are?

[ May 30, 2003, 09:43 PM: Message edited by: mycatsnameis ]

 

[mycatsnameis]

Well I found them.

Here's 88: IBM 64-bit PowerPC 970 microprocessor chip die.

and here's 89: IBM 64-bit PowerPC 970 microprocessor CBGA module.

They're all listed in the "Pervasive" menu.

There's also one more that's not specifically labeled 970 but is also part of the (64-bit) series:

IBM 64-bit PowerPC microprocessor chip in the eye of a needle with copper colored thread. (#94)

 

[mycatsnameis]

If you'd like to step into my office, we can discuss this privately.

 

[mycatsnameis]

Just to get this thread back OT, if MacWhispers is right about 970 chip costing 2/3 of G4s then perhaps the promo photos with feathers will turn out to be an accurate metaphor.

The machines should be flying off the shelves.