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Re: Where has time gone?

Rhakios — Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:36 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:36 am

Yeah, but the Apollo project had rocket scientists working on it, just me here with my PC

Re: Where has time gone?

Dutch_Master — Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:33 pm

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:33 pm

Your Android phone has at least 500.000x more computing power then the entire Apollo space program (that brought mankind to the moon and back) had at its disposal.

Re: Where has time gone?

guy — Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:28 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:28 pm

Somewhere I saw that to get all the functions of an iPhone back in 1983, you would have needed an entire truckload of electronics - not the smallest item being a Cray supercomputer.

Re: Where has time gone?

Rhakios — Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:37 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:37 pm

I was curious to see what was in the downloads section, but the page came up blank for me

Where has time gone?

Bazza — Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:09 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:09 pm

10 years ago I made this kids level project for the AMIGA:-

http://homepages.tesco.net/wisecracker/public/SCOPE.GIF

It was a real time AC/DC coupled Oscilloscope for the Classic AMIGA...

The cost to build it worked out to about 75 UKP in those days...

Just bought this today, 15-10-2011 for 80 UKP from MAPLIN...

http://www.hps140.com/

We have come a bloody long way in consumer electronics
in the last 10 years...