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Re: Those were the days of expensive computers!

From palsing@21:1/5 to StarDust on Fri Aug 19 20:11:49 2022

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:09:38 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/

Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/smartphone-power-compared-to-apollo-432/

"Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computers"

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From StarDust@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 19 20:09:37 2022

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/

Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!

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From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to StarDust on Fri Aug 19 20:41:09 2022

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 9:09:38 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/

Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!

That photo is of an early 386 computer that costs a little over $8,000. If you really
want to go back to the days when computers were expensive...

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html https://thedayintech.wordpress.com/tag/norc/ https://www.pingdom.com/blog/retro-delight-gallery-of-early-computers-1940s-1960s/

John Savard

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From StarDust@21:1/5 to palsing on Fri Aug 19 20:20:47 2022

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:11:51 PM UTC-7, palsing wrote:

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:09:38 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/

Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/smartphone-power-compared-to-apollo-432/

"Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computers"

I heard, the Hubble computer had a 386 CPU, then got upgraded to 486!
My old/new LG smartphone has octacore CPU , 8 CPU's, can record in 4K videos. It's already 5 years old!
LOL!

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From StarDust@21:1/5 to StarDust on Fri Aug 19 20:16:15 2022

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:09:38 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/

Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!

My first computer cost over $2,000 and had Windows 3.1 that loaded up with something like 19 floppy disks.
Those were the days when we dreamed of a 1 GB hard drive and had to disconnect the modem in order to use the phone

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From W@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Sun Aug 21 03:30:11 2022

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:41:10 PM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 9:09:38 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/

Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!

That photo is of an early 386 computer that costs a little over $8,000. If you really
want to go back to the days when computers were expensive...

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html https://thedayintech.wordpress.com/tag/norc/ https://www.pingdom.com/blog/retro-delight-gallery-of-early-computers-1940s-1960s/

For the general population, mainframes and minis were the stuff of movies, TV and science fiction.

If the topic had been labeled "personal computers" or "microcomputers" your comment would be moot. Actually, it is moot anyway.

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