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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you realize you have 100x the processor capbilities built in your phone ....
then the astronuats who landed on the moon in 1972? What a wonderously amazing and dangerous thing to possess.
ret5hd
(20,515 posts)technological marvels!
Botany
(70,567 posts)N/T
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)elleng
(131,077 posts)It's DUMB!
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,654 posts)A lot less rocket power.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)unc70
(6,117 posts)A modern iPhone has probably more power than all the NASA related computers in 1969 combined.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)More like 10,000 X.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)than the Apollo onboard computers had.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)Why, when I was a boy aerospace engineer, we had to carve the rockets out of stone and chew trees to make pulp to form into punch cards.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)I built it from pieces of bark. Its accuracy left much to be desired.
Retrograde
(10,151 posts)I bought a sewing machine that had more computing power than the Apollo astronauts had. Still runs fine. My newest machine has even more computing power - and WiFi capability!
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)Interested in how that changes the sewing experience.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)If it is, some of the new ones let you design on your computer and transfer stitch files to the sewing machine head over wi-fi.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)programable sewing machines.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Theyve got sewing machines that can embroider a picture of Trump banging his tin cup against the bars of his cell if you have a picture like that. And if you REALLY want to get fancy you can get multineedle machines thatll let you load many colors of thread: black and white for his striped uniform, orange for his face, pink for his underwear, yellow for his hair, light gray for his tin cup and dark gray for the bars. When you push go itll stitch them one right after the other.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)light blue and dark blue, plus red, yellow, and green. Black Pearl snaps on the lights and white on the darks. Plus embroidery logos /designs.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)What holds me back: do I really want to gamble $15,000 on an embroidery machine?
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)I KNOW Grandma would have done THAT one and had it hanging in the parlor!
3Hotdogs
(12,400 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,376 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Ninety-nine percent of that capability is used for driving the interface and playing videos just like this one:
https://m.
Where this comparison falls apart is relative functionality. iPhones generally dont have peripherals. A Saturn V rocket is 363 feet of them. Its quite amazing what they were able to accomplish with the Apollo Guidance Computer it had 11 machine language instructions, it was created before the microprocessor was invented, and it still got 33 people into outer space and put 24 of them within proximity of, if not on, the moon.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)But there must have been a lot of "if this than that" branches.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)The iPhone was not designed to land a space ship. The components and related technology would be superior to those that did should someone decide to use them for such a purpose.
SalamanderSleeps
(588 posts)Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)Think about all of the heroic efforts to bring that up when now it would be pressing 2 buttons and waiting for the apple to appear.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,570 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 19, 2022, 02:16 AM - Edit history (1)
Can you imagine having this tech in '69?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(588 posts)....the size of a refrigerator.
Amazing the things that can get done when you take 250,000+ really smart folks and point them in a good direction.
Lunabell
(6,105 posts)Getting there, anyways.
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)My desktop is another issue altogether...probably smarter than I am.
Demovictory9
(32,472 posts)At work..to say " my computer is a 486" gave you status. Lol
EYESORE 9001
(25,965 posts)was accompanied by a disembodied, angelic choir and the brilliance of heavenly light.
Demovictory9
(32,472 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)I was on leave from the Field Station when the public library my mother ran was buying its first computer. The grant they were given was to implement a computerized card catalog called LaserCat, which (dont laugh) required a PC with three CD-ROM drives. This was for interlibrary loans, which are critical in Idaho. The grantor had given them enough money to buy a 386 tower. Naturally my mom, being the cheapest person on the face of the fucking planet, didnt want to spend the money.
Side note: on the day she died, we went to the funeral home to set up her cremation. The counselor we had - a very nice and quite attractive young lady - started showing us all these pretty urns they offer. I spoke up: Maam, you can stop now. We want the cheapest fucking urn you can get your hands on even if its a corn flakes box. She would have wanted it that way. My two sisters just broke out laughing and we started telling this lady stories of what an absolute skinflint my mother was. Fortunately for us, the cheapest fucking urn they could get their hands on was this little black enameled wooden box which actually looks okay and not a corn flakes box. This is the urn the state uses on indigents who die in prison; shed never had anyone voluntarily ask for one in the three years shed been in the bereavement industry.
Okay. So back to the computer. I told her the best thing she could do for the library was to spend the entire grant on the heaviest duty computer the money can buy. Oh no, she couldnt bring herself to do that. Any excess funds had to be returned so Im like, They want you to buy a good computer. They told you what computer they wanted. It isnt your money and they want you to spend it. If you buy the cheapest machine youll need to replace it in a year out of the librarys money. Her response was to tell me not to recommend a machine like the Army uses, which brought forth a there arent enough zeroes in this grant for that response from me.
So, she bought a 12MHz 286 and
it turned out I was wrong - they had to replace it in five months when the next update needed a 386.
Johnny2X2X
(19,108 posts)harumph
(1,910 posts)Imagine that. 200 horses.
llmart
(15,552 posts)To look up what year they landed on the moon.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)They didn't even have automobiles or telescopes.