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'Modern' Computers Turn 60 Years Old
Christian Smith writes "Stored program computers are 60 years old on Saturday. The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or 'Baby,' first ran on the 21st of June, 1948, in Manchester. While not the first computer, nor even programmable computer, it was the first that stored its program in its own memory. Luckily, transistors shrank the one tonne required for this computing power to something more manageable."
not a hope of backporting to this one...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I would imagine the weight he wanted was the weight of the beetle filled to the maximum amount possible with live clowns. Sometimes the clowns are considered 'airbags' and so may qualify as safety equipment, but your mileage may vary. I don't think he was asking about how much a curb weighs though. that would probably depend on the height, width, length, and composition of the curb piece in question.
One CS student VS 893 DOS games: Let's play oldies
That's proof it ain't a Japanese car. Else the new one would be at the very least at factor 2. And next gen it would be 5.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yeah...but, those old tubes used to make the data 'feel' warmer.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
The schools these days . . .
let's try it this way:
Mommy hippo weighs 1200 pounds.
Daddy hippo weighs a time and a half as much as Mommy.
How much does Mommy hippo weigh? :)
We invented the computer!!!
ENIAC was the first proper computer. Everyone knows the computer is an American invention, like planes and automobiles and electricity (telephone, radio and electric motors). If it wasn't for America, no one would be able to go faster than a horse's speed, or send messages thousands of miles. We'd all be stuck in the dark ages!
1. Transistors get far smaller
2. ???
3. We are slaves to robotic overlords
Maybe if you use Will Smith's humor, or a recursive time-travel paradox, to distract us from the "???" it could work as a plot.
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