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Deconstructing the PC Revolution

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-back dept.

coondoggie writes to mention that room-sized computers and other recollections were shared over the weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival in Silicon Valley. "About 200 people, many of them of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety, attended the event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif."

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  1. From the article by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article: One of the first microprocessors on the market, the Intel 4004 introduced in 1971, featured 4-bit computing, a 750KHz clock, completed 75,000 instructions per second, held 4KB of ROM and 640 bytes of RAM.

    "By today's standards, this is totally unremarkable," said Tim McNerney

    Unremarkable is a 5-year old processor. But when things are the first of their kind, they will always be remarkable by any standard.

    -Grey

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  2. Hey! by MECC · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 200 people, many of them of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety

    ... hey!
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    - E.M. Cioran