Die letzten Worte zu meinen Großvätern sterben er und arbeitete in den 1960er Jahren für Honeywell in Tampa und der größte Teil seines Büros starb an einem „mysteriösen Krebs“. Am Tag, nachdem er in Schwarz gestorben war, kam und nahm er alle seine Sachen. Er arbeitete an Apollo Rockets und war laut meiner Mutter ein unglaublicher Mann, aber er starb, als sie 4 Jahre alt war (um 1969). Und seine letzten Worte waren „der Regierung nie vertrauen“. Einer seiner Arbeitskräfte, der die Krankheit nicht in einem Jahr zu Weihnachten im Jahr 2010 zu Weihnachten bekam. Wir haben Fragen gestellt und versuchten, Einblicke in die Dinge zu erhalten, an denen sie arbeiteten, und dieser Mann bis in die 80er Jahre hatte wir immer noch zu erschreckend, um etwas zu sagen.
„Ich kann dir ehrlich gesagt nicht sagen, dass ich wünschte, ich könnte“. Er starb einige Monate später
Was ist so beängstigend, an dem zu arbeiten, an dem ein Mann in der Nähe des Todes Ihnen nicht sagen wird?
Hier sind einige Fotos von Leiterbrettern, die wir beim Reinigen im Haus versteckt gefunden haben.
Nicht so, als müsste ich „niemals der Regierung vertrauen“ hören, weil ich es bereits nicht tue. Aber ich bin neugieriger darüber, wofür diese Jungs arbeiteten, für die sie ihr Leben verloren haben. Ich weiß, dass sie auch nicht allein sind.
Von guitarman1103
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Where did you find those boards? Did you find anything else?
What really stands out here is how fluid these layouts look, especially for circuit boards supposedly from the 1950s and ’60s.
ChatGTP’s 2 pence –
Unlike the rigid, grid-based traces you’d find in most Cold War–era electronics, these designs feel almost biomorphic. They curve, loop, and branch like nervous systems or root structures.
The central piece with the gold plating is likely a backplane or connector array, maybe for early computing or signal routing. The rest? Possibly prototype PCBs for sensors, signal processors, or telemetry interfaces.
judging by the ‚Honeywell Inc. – Tampa Div.‘ tag, this could be linked to military or aerospace research. Honeywell was deeply involved in guidance systems and early automation tech, particularly for NASA and defense projects.
What’s striking is how some of these resemble the visual complexity of hybrid circuits or even early MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), yet those didn’t hit mainstream development until the 1970s and ’80s. This adds to the mystery — it’s as if form and function were merging in a way that’s more common in modern PCB design, where electromagnetic behavior and artistic layout sometimes blur.
It’s rare to see such aesthetic intentionality in old circuitry. If these were hand-taped layouts — as was common back then — the designer had a serious sense of rhythm and flow. Feels less like industrial engineering and more like the work of someone quietly communicating in copper lines. You don’t usually get that kind of soul from a circuit board.
plz elaborate
Why is this post NSFW? Seems like it would get more attention if it weren’t.
Finally some real fucking content we can agree on.
I don’t know anything about circuits but those look really beautiful to me; especially bottom right.
Electrical engineer here. Not sure what people are on about with chatgpt and saying these boards look crazy.
These look like standard circuit boards from the mid 1900s. Before computers, boards were designed by hand, laying out dark tape on transparencies that would be used to print the board design. These naturally led to organic designs with lots of curves. Take apart an old transistor radio and you’ll see similar looking boards. There’s nothing weird in this picture. Random example of another old board with similarly schwoopy traces: https://soundmediagroupau.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/monthly_2023_04/luxmanA3600PCBpic.jpg.21940ec94c387e3fe9fc7b6988c4c204.jpg
And these are bare boards with no components on them. So they’re useless without any electronics and there is no way to tell what exactly they are for. The center one’s flower-shaped pads are almost certainly for an array of vacuum tubes.
Reminds me of the story of Frank Olson, a U.S. scientist who worked for the CIA and was involved in MK Ultra. After having his drink spiked with LSD by the infamous Sidney Gottlieb, he still experienced hallucinations several days after. Thinking he was going crazy, he was likely going to spill the beans. Gottlieb even tricked him with a “therapist” who was also CIA. He was quickly silenced by “falling out of a window”. Remember, if you know anything, you pose a threat. We’re all expendable.
He definitely knew some things. I’d say more than likely, he knew that we didn’t create transistors, and someone, or something else definitely gave us that information. We went from T model fords to iPhones in less than a human life time. Really insane when you think about it.
Marking this NSFW makes me not believe you in an instant