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by: palsing - Sat, 20 Aug 2022 03:11 UTC

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:09:38 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:
> https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/
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> 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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by: StarDust - Sat, 20 Aug 2022 03:16 UTC

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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by: StarDust - Sat, 20 Aug 2022 03:20 UTC

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/
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> > Now days, an Apple Watch can run this thing in circles!
> https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/smartphone-power-compared-to-apollo-432/
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> "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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by: Quadibloc - Sat, 20 Aug 2022 03:41 UTC

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 9:09:38 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:
> https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2201862459987492/
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> 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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by: W - Sun, 21 Aug 2022 10:30 UTC

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/
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> > 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.

We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved.

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Those were the days of expensive computers!	StarDust
Re: Those were the days of expensive computers!	palsing
Re: Those were the days of expensive computers!	StarDust
Re: Those were the days of expensive computers!	StarDust
Re: Those were the days of expensive computers!	Quadibloc
Re: Those were the days of expensive computers!	W