Re: Nostalgia

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:44

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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

Still, people did some amazing things with those very
primitive machines.  Put a man on the moon, for instance.

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