Miniatur Wunderland

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• Leon Posts: 7,620

  2010-09-12 12:04 edited 2010-09-12 12:04

  Back in the 1960s, when I was a student apprentice at English-Electric-LEO computers, Kidsgrove, they had a mainframe computer in the lab controlling a model train layout. They were hoping to get British Rail to buy the system for controlling a goods yard. If someone removed one of the trucks from a train the system printed out on the Teletype: "Someone has pinched a truck!"
• Ron Czapala Posts: 2,418

  2010-09-12 12:10 edited 2010-09-12 12:10

  Wow! Very impressive!
  
  Thanks for posting this. I grabbed the video file out the IE cache.
• $WMc% Posts: 1,884

  2010-09-12 12:15 edited 2010-09-12 12:15

  Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »

  A friend of mine emailed me this link:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature=player_embedded
  
  Be sure to view it full-screen (and in HD if you've got the connection speed). Imagine the microcontroller applications in that place!
  
  -Phil

  
  I wonder if the have a behind the scenes tour? I'd love to see all the R.I/O cabinets and the electronic hardware running this thing.
• Martin_H Posts: 4,051

  2010-09-12 18:13 edited 2010-09-12 18:13

  Here's a video of the exact opposite. It's a real city made to look small:
  
  http://vimeo.com/9679622
• Whit Posts: 4,191

  2010-09-12 18:20 edited 2010-09-12 18:20

  Thanks for posting Phil! Amazing!
• Ravenkallen Posts: 1,057

  2010-09-12 19:26 edited 2010-09-12 19:26

  That is so COOL!!! My brother and i were just in awe of such detail. All of the little fake people, the lights, the cars...Wow
• Roger Lee Posts: 339

  2010-09-12 20:17 edited 2010-09-12 20:17

  Thanks Phil
  
  In one word "WOW!"
• HollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398

  2010-09-12 23:22 edited 2010-09-12 23:22

  OMG! that's just wonderful :-)
  
  I love miniatures.... I used to have a huge collection
  of miniatures inside very cute doll houses. This makes
  me think back to all of that.
• TinkersALot Posts: 535

  2010-09-13 07:49 edited 2010-09-13 07:49

  I so want to go there!