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Tag: Subway

  • Intel NUC Compact Computer Picked Up Off the Sidewalk

    compact desktop computer about the size of a hardback book next to its box, which is 3 times as large as the computer

    On our walk to the subway on the way to City Tech yesterday, Y and I found this Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) compact computer left out on the sidewalk. Originally priced about $1000 as a barebones system in 2018, it features Intel® Core™ i7-8809G Processor with Radeon™ RX Vega M GH graphics, two SO-DIMM DDR4-2400 RAM slots, and two M.2 slots for storage. It has numerous input and output ports on the front and rear. For something about the size of a hardback book, it is significantly heavy–I’m guessing its cooling system has a lot of copper. I didn’t have my hex drivers at school, so I wasn’t able to open it up to see how it is configured for RAM and storage. Unfortunately, it didn’t have a PSU, so I don’t have a way to power it up either. There are some compatible PSUs for sale on eBay, but they range from $150 to 185, which is too high for me to gamble on a possibly dead system. While I wait on a bargain on a PSU, I’ll add the NUC to the Retrocomputing at City Tech collection that I keep in my increasingly small office space.

  • End Sign in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

    large yellow sign with the word "END" hanging on a fence next to the above ground subway in Brooklyn.

    Several streets in Carroll Gardens are bisected where the F and G subway lines escape their underground confinement and rise into the air for a short stretch between there and Park Slope. This is the end of one of those streets where the dead end sign hangs on the chain link fence above a brick wall. The roof of a subway train is tearing by from left to right at the bottom of the frame.

  • F-Train Pulling into Ditmas Avenue

    F-Train pulling into Ditmas Avenue above-ground station in Brooklyn.

    The above-ground Ditmas Avenue subway station is a nice place to watch the trains come and go because the track extends into the distance in both directions. At the underground stations, you tend to only see the headlights reflected off the tiled walls before the train pulls into platform. We saw this F-train from a long distance away at dusk before it finally pulled up for us to board.