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Article #620796Re: Nostalgia
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:45
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:45
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On 2/15/2018 3:44 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > 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. > Sometimes people can get a lot more done... when they realize that they have to work harder with primitive tools and knowledge... -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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