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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 10, 2021 14:28:51 GMT
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 11, 2021 9:16:19 GMT
There's probably more power in a basic phone these days than all of the computers there!
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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 12, 2021 9:37:29 GMT
There's probably more power in a basic phone these days than all of the computers there! Don't they say that the first Nintendo had more processing power than all the gear that put man on the moon in 69? Don't know if that is an apocryphal story though.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 12, 2021 9:56:10 GMT
There's probably more power in a basic phone these days than all of the computers there! Don't they say that the first Nintendo had more processing power than all the gear that put man on the moon in 69? Don't know if that is an apocryphal story though. Could well be true - I believe the keep space craft as low tech as possible to ensure everything is as bug free as possible.
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Jan 9, 2022 19:48:37 GMT
There's probably more power in a basic phone these days than all of the computers there! My first computer in 1970: Burroughs B200. 9K ferrite core RAM. 2MB hard disk. Card reader. 12 inch high speed tape drive. High speed printer. No screen. Output was on the printer. No keyboard. All input was from punched cards. Cost (I was told ) $500,000. It processed weekly payroll for 2000 staff, 500 customer bills per day, 2000 weekly credit union accounts.
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Jan 9, 2022 19:58:31 GMT
Don't they say that the first Nintendo had more processing power than all the gear that put man on the moon in 69? Don't know if that is an apocryphal story though. Could well be true - I believe the keep space craft as low tech as possible to ensure everything is as bug free as possible. More to the point, that's all they had. The first computer had been invented 20 years before and lots of technology was in its infancy. It wouldn't have a keyboard or CRT screen, which need lots of computer power to operate. It would have had ferrite core memory, thousands of little magnetic donuts strung with wires instead of chip memory which wasnt invented for a few more years.
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Feb 19, 2022 22:22:35 GMT
There's probably more power in a basic phone these days than all of the computers there! Don't they say that the first Nintendo had more processing power than all the gear that put man on the moon in 69? Don't know if that is an apocryphal story though. Fun fact, it is possible to put together a functioning 8 bit computer using nothing but transistors, capacitors, semiconductors, diodes, a printed circuit board, an HDMI jack, a power jack, a USB jack, a few timing crystals, a 6502 processor or z80, and a bios rom chip. The early bios rom chips also doubled as ram chips, usually limited to 64k. It is tough getting the video output to work just right. This article covers the mechanics of computer start up "power on self test" in more detail. However it is for more modern computers. thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/bios/index.html
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Feb 20, 2022 0:29:26 GMT
This morning on the news, the inside of an actual Russian military bunker was shown. Which looked very much like this, and sci-fi depictions of computers from the 1950's with lighted buttons and knobs, with a flat panel lcd added to display the radar. I just had to laugh out loud at just how primitive it all was. Including the tacky purple fabric office chairs that looked like something from the 1980's.
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