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[Jimothy]

[urban.spaceman]

 

[Tinman]

[davieG]

Same place, 58 years apart. And guess what, the 2nd one has much more capacity..

[urban.spaceman]

 

[urban.spaceman]

No idea why they used a sticker from a glory hole.

[ozleicester]

[Tuna]

 

Edited 24 November 2023 by Tuna

[ozleicester]

[Aus Fox]

[Aus Fox]

On 22/11/2023 at 04:12, westernpark said:

Not funny? Borderline harassment.

Isn’t he talking to the man who is holding two melons? Who is clearly there as parts of the joke 

[DerbyshireFox]

[kingcarr21]

[FoxesDeb]

[shen]

33 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

Bit rude to call you a C'nut just for that.

[urban.spaceman]

[Tuna]

 

[MPH]

Imagine having no arms and committing armed robbery….

 

 

[Guest WarehamFox]

[Jimothy]

[Parafox]

On 23/11/2023 at 12:26, davieG said:

Same place, 58 years apart. And guess what, the 2nd one has much more capacity..

When I was a Gateway Grammar school in 1970 we had the first ever school computer in the city. It took up almost an entire classroom and took almost an hour to load and solve a mathematical question. And that's all it did, maths. 

 

The questions were on hole-punched cards. You had to feed the cards through some device that could recognise the pattern of holes which would then, eventually, print out a sheet of the calculations and the answer.

 

I think it was called COBOL.

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

 

I think it was called COBOL.

Come on! Bloody Ow Long?!! 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Talking of older computers; I was reminded of this:

 

In 1943 Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said, "I think there's a world market for maybe five computers."

 

He got that a bit wrong....

[Jon the Hat]

12 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Talking of older computers; I was reminded of this:

 

In 1943 Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said, "I think there's a world market for maybe five computers."

 

He got that a bit wrong....

Miniaturization and mass production did alter the pricing somewhat.  There is a great one where McKinsey, the masters of bigging up their business genius calculated the US market for mobile phones at around 900,000 by 2000.  It was 109 Million.

Edited 26 November 2023 by Jon the Hat

[Mike Oxlong]