advancement in technology

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by jarcher, May 14, 2007.

  1. jarcher

    jarcher I can't handle a title

    through all your years of living
    what tech advancement
    just completley blows your mind?

    like to a 95yo a camera cell phone. .perhaps. . .

    and when did a phone stop being a phone. . ?
     
  2. musksnipe

    musksnipe Guest

    Computers. I could have had this baby when I was 14. (The year is my businessrolleyes)

    The PDP-8's basic configuration had a main memory of 4,096 twelve-bit words (that is, 4K words, equivalent to 6 kilobytes The PDP-8's basic configuration had a main memory of 4,096 twelve-bit words (that is, 4K), expandable to 32,768 words (32K words / 48 KB) which were controlled by the IOT instruction and additional hardware. At its inception, the PDP-8 had only eight instructions and two registers(a 12-bit accumulator, AC, and a single-bit "link register", L). The machine used magentic core memory system that operated at a cycle time of 1.5 microseconds
     

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