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- alamedaman, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1455 feet long and 8 feet high... but can it run Crysis?
- dotorg, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Its also not true, the term was very commonly used well before the moth incident. It was noted at the time precisely because it was ironic, not because they were coining some future phrase.
The whole moth-in-the-Mark-I-and-taped-to-a-notebook creating the term "bug" is a modern myth. - Icetype, on 08/08/2008, -0/+323 digits of accuracy is still better than a $1 calculator though. Even if it was slower.
- LouBrown, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3Very interesting indeed! I had no idea about the origin of the "computer bug" expression.
- strangewill, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2A modern 55 foot long and 8 foot high computer can barely run it.
- JQP123, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2In the dictionary under "geek", they should display the picture from the article. No further explaination would be necessary.
- p3ngwin, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2yep, the "bug" terminology has a surprisingly simple meaning.
- byronm, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1A happy meal play toy watch
- nickc321, on 08/07/2008, -1/+2I'm always a fan of tech history pieces..... we've gone so far based on so 'little'
- nickycakes, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1If you're ever around boston, you should go to the harvard science center and take a look at this thing. It's pretty sweet.
- CATSCEO2, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1What today is comparable to its processing power? A $1 calculator?
- FonzsXe, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Imagine changing the power supply on this bastard!
- maximize, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1This would of been appropriate for YESTERDAY. Damn recommendation engine.
- kd1s, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1I love how they boggle at 760,000 components. A modern PC has hundreds of millions of components. In our case though most of it is wrapped up in that thing we call the CPU.
- solid12345, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Check Craig's List
- strangewill, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Probably because of the difficulty to assemble 760,000 components to work together back then, where as now a machine does it for us.
- kd1s, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1So true, now we have smart machines making smart machines. Skynet here we come.
- lordstryker01, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Though not the first digital computer. The very first and beginning started in the late 30s by Professor Atanasoff at Iowa State University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Ber ... - phussey, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Zuse of Germany
Babbage
Lovelace
etc
www.TwoBitPress.com - inactive, on 08/09/2008, -0/+0I'm using a Mark I right now. I just upgraded the ram to half a megabyte... it's great for surfing the web and typing papers.
- RonDP, on 11/22/2008, -0/+0Very interesting!
http://www.acadapterz.com/toshiba.html - leerayIG88, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1***** you, two of my friends bought two of these computers.
- Meztigal, on 09/19/2008, -0/+0http://last-worlds-news.com/show.php?id=IBMg55czj
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Here is one for you: Who's the "father" of the computer, who's idea was it?
- onwardknave, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1"...I was a monster: 55 feet long and 8 feet high." gave me a morning wake-up call.
Happy birthday, Mark I. - solid12345, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2We'd still be using this today if the greys hadn't crashed out in the desert at Roswell.
- felyduw, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2No.
- solarhene, on 08/08/2008, -2/+0Al Gore?
- Xebozone, on 08/08/2008, -4/+2but will it blend?
- overkillingness, on 08/08/2008, -4/+2Pants a-hoy!
- iancgi, on 08/08/2008, -5/+2Where is the model IBM made for HItler so he could catalog the people who was going to keep alive and kill?
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