I was at the Pima Air and Space Museum last weekend and saw something in the old avionics bay that made me think

They have a B-52 cockpit section you can walk through, and I was looking at the old analog instrument panel. It's wild to see how much wiring and how many individual gauges they had to manage, all for systems we'd now handle with a few digital displays. It really hit me how far the tech has come, but also how the basic idea of routing signals and keeping things powered is still the same job. Has anyone else been to a museum lately and noticed something that made you appreciate the modern stuff we work on?

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ericfox12d ago

That wiring looked like a spaghetti monster's bad day.

jadel6511d ago

Cable ties and a label maker saved my sanity with a similar mess.