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nano technology
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Oh, one of my engineering professors was one of the guys that built the first super computer with transistors I believe. You went to University in Manchester, UK? |
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ctrl alt delete Great comic! |
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Wasn't the transistor 1st built and designed by Bell Labs?...Miles
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Edited by
Chazster
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Thu 02/28/08 10:35 AM
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Oh, one of my engineering professors was one of the guys that built the first super computer with transistors I believe. You went to University in Manchester, UK? No, I got to a small University in Louisiana. Our professors here have done incredible things though. I believe thats what we talked about one day last semester when we got off topic in our engineering communications class. I can ask him to make sure of it though. (one of my professors did work for IBM and worked in japan, germany, etc so they could have worked anywhere. Like I said I can double check on this.) I keep editing this.. He could have helped build the first super computer period.. with vacuum tubes i think it was.. I really need to check my facts. |
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UnivAC!!!
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/univac.htm |
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nano technology can you explain how this is a computer breakthrough? |
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Thats a hard one. Several inventions were needed to put it into a useful tool for the "rest of us".
The Keyboard input -- If anyone remembers the toggle switches and knows binary code as a second language. Disk Drives - For any one who has ever dropped a collection of punch cards. or waited 20 mins to load a game of pong from a cassette drive. ARPA Net - Forefather to Internet But the best on of all is the one that hasn't been invented yet. |
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I would have to say when they incorporated them into video games.
I can still remember the days when I had my old Atari gaming system and spending money at the arcades like there was no tomorrow. Asteroids and Space Invaders were among my favorites. |
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Disk Drives - For any one who has ever dropped a collection of punch cards. or waited 20 mins to load a game of pong from a cassette drive. At my Jr. High School's Computer Science Lab, we had an Imsai 8080. It ran BASIC as its OS and it could be loaded by a cassette drive or by a punch tape from an Olivetti Teletype. Remember those? 
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