Re: Nostalgia

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From: ma...
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:58

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On 2018-02-15, Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing at my bookcase and noting a 1971 copy of the
> PDP8's Small Computer Handbook.
>
> That was 47 years ago, and then 47 years before then
> takes us back to 1924, well before the days of any
> working programmable machines (pace the Jacquard Loom)
>
> Now that the Raspberry Pi 3 gives us a quadcore 64 bit
> processor with 1GB of RAM for only a few £ / $, I realise that a lot of
> our nostalgia and folklore of those days is for something
> very primitive compare to today's offerings

All the Raspberry needs is a largeish laptop case, in a corner of
which it could nestle. Still, the old golden rule, Garbage in,
Garbage out.


-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man

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