L
Long Street
longstreet.typepad.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Long Street is the Science Bookstore's blog, posting historical curiosities such as old computers, maps, prints, and price comparisons.
What HN saysHN links it for historical items like the 1959 paper digital computer PAPAC-00 and a post on what things cost in 1876.
17HN people shared it
3linked it in comments
18stories submitted
213story points
1 year agolast shared
2010people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1A Do-It-Yourself paper digital computer (1959)2 people · 59 points · first shared 2020 · 8 comments on HN
- 2Computer Chronology, 1938-19882 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 3A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)1 people · 73 points · first shared 2019 · 17 comments on HN
- 4Fistfights and Beggars: Found Street Life in Old Prints (1757)1 people · 18 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 5The History of the Future of Skyscrapers: Thomas Nast, 1881 (2009)1 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6The 47 Sins of Isaac Newton, as Recorded by Himself (2011)1 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Wood, Metal, Cubes, and Words: A Few Story-Machines Since Gulliver's Travels1 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 8Dr. Seuss and the 236 Words that Changed Reading Forever1 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · 3 comments on HN
- 9A Paris Made to be Destroyed1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 10Original 1959 Do-It-Yourself Computer Project1 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11Hudson River Rooftop Airport1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12A Monumental and Fantastically Bad Idea: Draining the Mediterranean1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Speculating on Ned "Luddite" Ludd as a 2013 Figure1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Glorious Astronomical Gearworks: Models of the Solar System, 1817-18211 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 15Unusual Maps: A Weighted Radio Map of the U.S., 19371 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
andrehacker · 2025-05-14
Related, from 1959, many years before CARDIAC:
PAPAC-00 A 2-register, 1 bit, Fixed Instruction Binary Digital Computer
https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/11/a-do-it-you…
Maursault · 2021-07-24
Checks out. [1]
[1] https://longstreet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83542d51e69e2011571d063ac970b-p…
maxerickson · 2015-01-15
Aren't you then making the correction twice?
It appears it would have been between 1 and 3 weeks wages for someone in a job where they would carry a gun:
http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/what-did-thi…
A somewhat decent low skill job these days pays $30,000-35,000, which puts the comparison in the ballpark of $500, not $5,000.