Skyline - N.Y.C.: Woolworth Bldg., Singer Bldg., Bankers Trust Bldg. (LOC)
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Skyline - N.Y.C.: Woolworth Bldg., Singer Bldg., Bankers Trust Bldg.
[1912?] (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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Photo shows Lower Manhattan, New York City, with ferry in foreground. Identified buildings include (from left): Woolworth Building (with tower nearing completion), Hudson Terminal, West Street Building, City Investing Tower, Singer Building, U.S. Realty and Trinity buildings, United States Express Company, Bankers Trust Tower, and 47 West Street Building. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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N.Y.C.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10624
Call Number: LC-B2- 2423-8
Matrox Ultima Plus (PCI)
Image by AutomaticDefence
Besides 3D accelerators, Matrox' 2D video cards likewise advanced over the years before the physical division of these tasks became obsolete. The earliest examples I can trace back date to 1987 and are based upon sub-supplier ICs - the PG-640 for instance can as it seems display 640x480 in 256 colours thanks to an unknown onboard processor and HD63484 display controller. On the other end of the scale, several in-house-designed chips in conjunction with Texas Instruments' remarkable TMS34010 allow the PG-1280 to output approximately double the resolution. It should be noted however that 3D circuitry of some sort is marked to be optional in a contemporary block diagram. At the time, ISA was and would still be the dominant interface on the market until about 1992, but Matrox as a manufacturer of high-end workstation cards couldn't ignore the then-new MCA bus (a propriety IBM standard) and the company subsequently released the MG series, of which members differ from each other slightly regarding installed memory and maximum resolution, and later even one version of the Ultima.
I'm unsure if that card already uses an IS-ATLAS or in fact previous IS-DUBIC, however they were in both cases a cheaper alternative to the Impression line-up and replaced older products like the S3 86C911-based HiPer VGA and Impression 1024. Generally speaking, the Ultima supplemented Matrox' range of products downwards in the shape of 2D-only models with cheaper VRAM and fewer standard features. At least for PCI, the PCB of the plain 2 MB version is as far as I know usually not upgradable and an 170/175 (Plus) resp. 200 Mhz (Plus 200) RAMDAC was available at extra cost alone.
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Vintage Las Vegas..Lucky Lady ... Lucky Supermarkets credit card scam getting worse (December 7, 2011) ...
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Although Lucky's outbreak is major, it's by no means the biggest credit card scam consumers have faced. Earlier this year, Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after confessing to stealing millions of credit card and debit card numbers in attacks on customers at T.J. Maxx, BJ's Wholesale Club, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers.
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Lucky Supermarkets credit card scam getting worse
by Don Reisinger December 7, 2011 9:38 AM PST
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Lucky Supermarkets, a chain in California, has been hit hard with a credit card scam.
The company announced the scam in November, saying customers and employees who used the self-checkout kiosks in more than 20 of its 234 stores might have fallen victim to tampered credit card readers. The hackers reportedly used devices called "sniffers" that recorded credit card numbers.
Soon after the information was made public, Lucky Supermarkets, as well as its parent company, Save Mart Supermarkets, said it was unsure how many people might have been affected but urged customers to monitor their accounts.
"We recommend our customers who used a self-checkout lane in the affected stores verify and monitor all credit/debit accounts with their financial institution to ensure everything is in order," the company said in a statement at the time. In subsequent announcements, the company has advised customers who used self-checkout lanes to close their accounts "and seek further advice."
Earlier this week, Save Mart said it had recorded "80 employee and customer reports of either compromised account data or attempts to access account data, with the majority coming over this past weekend." The company said, however, that its checks were not complete and that the number of recorded incidents could rise.
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In a phone conversation with CNET today, a Save Mart representative confirmed that "more than 80 people" have been affected, but she cautioned that the company has yet to arrive at a new figure.
"As things go on, we're learning more and more," the representative told CNET.
Although Lucky's outbreak is major, it's by no means the biggest credit card scam consumers have faced. Earlier this year, Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after confessing to stealing millions of credit card and debit card numbers in attacks on customers at T.J. Maxx, BJ's Wholesale Club, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers.
Gonzalez was accused of using a laptop to find unsecured wireless networks in stores and then installing sniffer programs to collect data. That information was then placed on clone cards and used to withdraw cash from ATMs.
Although Gonzalez's alleged actions hit customers nationwide, Lucky's hacks have been centered around Petaluma, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Foster City, and other California towns.
"Lucky Supermarkets sincerely regrets any inconvenience or concern this consumer notice may have caused you," the company wrote to customers in a statement last month. "Your confidence in our company and in your store is very important to us. We take seriously our responsibility to always keep our customers informed of any issues important to them."
Don Reisinger
Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, posting at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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Fastware AG110G
Image by AutomaticDefence
In late 1997, 3D acceleration and AGP support were the two marketing terms to sell video cards and consequentially all major manufacturers of the time quickly released their own products utilizing the new interface. Even Intel introduced one of the company's very few discrete graphics processing units to promote it, namely i740. To my knowledge only this unit and the earlier KU82706 (VGA) were intended for the retail market, however a small number of i752-based sample boards were later made to evaluate the performance of the i810 chipset, which IGP is basically the i740 core. Trident's contribution 3DImage975/985 appears to be a chip designed for AGP rather than a simple bolt-on solution like Matrox' Millennium II or S3's ViRGE/GX2 without support for AGP-specific features. The company enjoyed a certain degree of success in the low-end market and this Fastware AG110G is a typical example of this class. The blue PCB is a nice touch, but the card was likewise produced using a more common brown version.
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Ok, no more after this...
Image by Vic Acid
...for at least 3 months. I promise.
*sigh*
Codename: Big Black. Maybe I'll do a series with it called "Photos about Fucking." After I finish listening to "Jordan, MN" 1000 times. Since it keeps coming to mind when I think of BB.
[photo not taken by me; original image from KEH.com's auction on eBay]
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