G Giancarlo Banned Messages 4,836 Mar 11, 2005 #42 Re: Sticky: How old is your computer? xx cobra xx said: 65 years old i have lent it from a mate for 64 years its cool thnx, it plays Hangman and Pacman but the Graphics care poor. Click to expand... Computers at that time were vaccuum tube forms (1940s?)... they could only do minor calculations. lol
Re: Sticky: How old is your computer? xx cobra xx said: 65 years old i have lent it from a mate for 64 years its cool thnx, it plays Hangman and Pacman but the Graphics care poor. Click to expand... Computers at that time were vaccuum tube forms (1940s?)... they could only do minor calculations. lol
A ardy891 Daemon Poster Messages 1,359 Mar 11, 2005 #43 Weren't those ones that could help decipher the enigma code!! They must have been pretty powerful for the day!!
Weren't those ones that could help decipher the enigma code!! They must have been pretty powerful for the day!!
G Giancarlo Banned Messages 4,836 Mar 11, 2005 #44 ardy89 said: Weren't those ones that could help decipher the enigma code!! They must have been pretty powerful for the day!! Click to expand... They were powerful.. but they had the tendency of overheating constantly.. thank goodness for Bell Labs in developing the transistor.
ardy89 said: Weren't those ones that could help decipher the enigma code!! They must have been pretty powerful for the day!! Click to expand... They were powerful.. but they had the tendency of overheating constantly.. thank goodness for Bell Labs in developing the transistor.
A ardy891 Daemon Poster Messages 1,359 Mar 11, 2005 #45 Just think it all started off as a huge stucture that was extremely in-efficient, now they are a s small as pillows!!! Technology really is amazini!!
Just think it all started off as a huge stucture that was extremely in-efficient, now they are a s small as pillows!!! Technology really is amazini!!
G Giancarlo Banned Messages 4,836 Mar 11, 2005 #46 Well you can even go as small as your cell phone.. which can store all sorts of things and you can play games on them.. even a cell phone is better and faster then a vaccuum tube computer that took up football fields.
Well you can even go as small as your cell phone.. which can store all sorts of things and you can play games on them.. even a cell phone is better and faster then a vaccuum tube computer that took up football fields.
R rakedog Fully Optimized Messages 2,718 Mar 11, 2005 #47 Accualy a modern scientific calculator is sometimes more advanced then the tube or light comptuters of the 50's 60's.
Accualy a modern scientific calculator is sometimes more advanced then the tube or light comptuters of the 50's 60's.
