Popular Science March 1992 Edition

If you find that fascinating, you should check up on some of the earliest computers, The Sperry / Univac and Punch Card based storage systems.

The entire computer itself was the size of a building that filled out thousands of punch cards a day for data storage. Each card only holding a mere 70 bytes of data (A full days worth of cards being about 670MB) which less then a CD-Rom.

Today in regards of storage in regards of size, 128GB of pocket sized SDXC based capacities which eventually the highest capacity MicroSDXC cards will be 2TB. All of that storage at the size of a fingernail!

It's amazing isn't it.
 
aphexcoil said:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ogEAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

You want a treat? Load that up and go to page 50 where they start talking about the upcoming "Teraflop" supercomputers.

When you ready that, it's amazing to think that we now have the capability of having that power in a desktop machine.

It's a fascinating read!
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The fastest supercomputer at present, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Sequoia is 16,000x faster than that Teraflop computer. And that IBM machine is probably 10 billion times slower than what we currently need.
 
I found the magazine interesting since it looks like Online classes were just starting up and so were prepaid toll booth systems.
 
I did a science project in the 9th grade (1965-66) about the future of a new technology called the integrated chip. :eek:
 
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