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On 2018-02-16, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

> 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...

Or, as the saying goes, "work smarter, not harder."

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