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50 Year Old Computer Still Going
The Angry Mick writes "Geek.com is running a blurb on a 50 year old CSIRAC computer that is apparently still functional, if lurking in an Australian museum. Sporting a whopping 2K of RAM and screaming along at a blistering 300 khz(!) it proves the adage that they really don't make 'em like they used to . . ." Yes, because if they did, they'd be really, really slow.
perhaps you just need to calm yourself down? here, have a link
- more info at geek.com
- more info at yahoo.com
- more info at google.com
-anonymous karma whorein Soviet Russia we still can't clone that //e shit. Damn.
now that's how to post a troll!
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i can confirm that goatse has been working on his power moves. un-fucking-believable.
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why don't'cha dream of this instead, dude?
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In Soviet Russia, we flogged gags to death and they got up and kept working
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Karmawhore plan:
1. Move to Soviet Russia
2. Eat hot grits
3. View Natalie Portman
4. Install a Beowulf Cluster
5. ???
6. Profit!
I find it rather hillarious that an article from around a year ago is news today...
./ front page... I think I'll submit a story about man's first steps on the moon.
Quote: By comparison, a typical desktop PC today has a processing speed of 500 megahertz, with 64 megabytes of memory and a hard disk containing 10 gigabytes (10,000 million bytes) of storage. Sheesh, outdated much?
And this makes
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