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I've been thinking [Don't worry its not scary]

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With everyone talking about the technology we have nowadays in posts. Does anyone else think the tablets and all we have today are right out of Star Trek(Not the original I think we passed them after cell phones I mean the Next Generation on with all the nifty clear tablet computers)?
 
It's amazing the things that far exceed even the series from 20 years ago, much less the original. Besides the tablets, Bluetooth with a cell which is very much like the later series communicator badges as hands free go anywhere technology. And for your computer, I got a 32G flashdrive for $20 that is barely the size of the tip of my little finger.
 
What gets me is that the average cell phone today has more computing power than the supercomputer that I learned to program on ...
 
TR3driver said:
What gets me is that the average cell phone today has more computing power than the supercomputer that I learned to program on ...
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and certainly more than the vacuum tube behemoth IBM-Q7 NORAD Sage system I used to repair! It had a whopping 256k of memory!
 
There is more technology in a modern calculator (or is it cell phone?) than there was in all of NASA when we put men on the moon.......that's a bit scary! :smile:
 
Silverghost said:
There is more technology in a modern calculator (or is it cell phone?) than there was in all of NASA when we put men on the moon.......that's a bit scary! :smile:
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I actually heard - than in a musical Xmas card. It was 64k landed us on the moon.
 
Grandpa listened to Sonny Liston fights on radio. Dad watched CNN on TV.
Today I checked the news, ordered stuff, communicated with a friend long lost, watched Corning futuristic videos, looked at Mars and am talking with you on an already outdated 4 month old laptop that I still haven't figured out. I think it has a bunch of K. Pretty exciting.
 
Too much technology. Like Richard said, outdated and still havn't used it to it's full potential.
 
Not too much technology for me even if I can't utilize it all. Otherwise we would need to know what a bit is and how to punch a card to make it work. I probably even got that wrong, but I don't need to know, thanks to technology.
 
sail said:
Otherwise we would need to know what a bit is and how to punch a card to make it work.
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I sure don't miss punched cards AT ALL.
Lessee, if I recall correctly there were about 1000 cards per box and 80 columns per card. Generally there was only one character per column; so that's about 80kb per box. So it would take 50,000 boxes to equal one 4 Gb thumb drive now. And since each box weighed over 10 pounds, you'd need a whole fleet of semis just to carry them around!

And yes, it was uphill both ways! :grin:
 
:lol:
 
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