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Originally Posted by Mike0001
In 1971 the University of Sheffield housed its IBM computer all down one side of the Hicks Building. It was less powerful than a pocket calculator is now. Now that must be 50 metres of floor space maybe 8 metres wide!
Its replacement? They built a block across the road to house that. By the late eighties a PC was more powerful.
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Hmmm... In 1969, the US send 3 individuals to the moon in a spaceship that had only 1/1000th of the processing power of a mobile phone...
Can you imagine, we're all walking around with devices in our pocket that could potentially get us to the moon and back a 1000 times...
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21st Jul 2008, 11:53
