How Computers Work -- Circa 1979 248
Guinnessy writes "In a younger, more innocent time, Ladybird Books came out with a series of children's books called "How things work." Someone has put the 1971 and 1979 versions of How Computers Work onto the web. It's a fascinating glance at how much computers have advanced since the silicon chip was introduced. State-of-the-art in 1971 consisted of fitting thirty components into a 1 cm3 volume."
Re:The times, they are a-changin' (Score:2, Insightful)
But then a meg was a lot of space back then... because pr0n was all really low-resultion stuff that came out on line printers.
Ok, who's going to be first to post a link to line-printer pr0n?
Co-incidence? (Score:3, Insightful)
At the time of writing, the quote at the bottom of the page is:
"To be loved is very demoralizing. -- Katharine Hepburn"
I think I'm beginning to get what she meant. Mind you, as I pointed out the first time this was posted, they do seem to have Emma Peel working for them [brinkster.net].
Cheers,
Ian
Re:Second that! (Score:2, Insightful)
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Nobody really understands sigs.
How Rockets Work (Score:1, Insightful)
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Re:Just wait 25 more years (Score:3, Insightful)
I also love posts that say things like "reaching the end of the transister" without giving any sort of reference or even half-decent argument for that.
We're nearing the end of this comment.