Technology humour

thumb|Lights on the front panel of a DEC PDP-8 (1965) thumb|The Harwell Dekatron Computer does arithmetic at approximately human speed. Watching the lights allows one to follow the instructions and the changing data as it runs the Squares program displayed on the panels In computer jargon, blinkenlights are diagnostic lights on front panels of old mainframe computers. More recently the term applies to status lights of modern network hardware (modems, network hubs, etc.). Blinkenlights disappeared from more recent computers for a number of reasons, the most important being the fact that with fa

system of units based on the furlong (length), the firkin (mass), and the fortnight (time)