February 14, 2011

Computer History Museum, part 3 of 3


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Computers are great at drawing lines and one of their first applications beyond number crunching was generating mechanical drawings.   Architects do very little pencil sharpening these days.



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Crank up "Offering A" or crank up "Offering B" -- THAT is the question...



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Oh, it's all very small, but the trace patterns of circuit boards have gotten even tinier in the past 40 years or so.



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Best way to approach a machine like this might be to READ the instruction manual.



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Computers and the things they do.   Allowing us to live beyond our wildest expectations.   Who would have thunk that we would be sending email in the blink of an eye.   Or spending our money so easily with just a click.   And of course, lets not forget (((Don))) to do our TurboTax again this year...



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1 comment:

Leovi said...

They remind me of science fiction films of the past.

 
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