OT: April 2, 1965 Time Magazine cover on how computers are changing our lives.

[Daddy Dee]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941042,00.html

news item: Gemini spacecraft computer (at a speedy 7000 calculations per second) helps astronauts make the first orbital course correction.

Scientists are referring to this society as "the cybernated generation".

In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories—four times as many as all the computers that exist elsewhere in the free world.

[JJkizak]

I believe we throw away more than 22,500 computers every day. Might check your numbers again.

JJK

[Daddy Dee]

I believe we throw away more than 22,500 computers every day. Might check your numbers again.

JJK

JJK,

Yes I would imagine that we do throw away more computers than that.

[oldbuckster]

Remember when they took up whole rooms, had to be air-conditioned rooms, Yes, they have come a long ways since they were first introduced ! Now look at them, lap tops, ultra-thin, wire-less, still developing, unbelievable, really !!!!!!!!

[kev313]

I believe we throw away more than 22,500 computers every day. Might check your numbers again.

JJK

I think those were 1965 numbers.

[Ray Garrison]

I believe we throw away more than 22,500 computers every day. Might check your numbers again.

JJK

He was quoting from the 1965 article.

[JJkizak]

OK. That must have been a good year. I bought the K-horns then.

JJK

[Daddy Dee]

The illustration shows the computer eating punch cards. Haven't seen those for a while.

I think my cell phone has more computing power than the computer on Apollo.

[Jay481985]

I recently brought and itsbeing shipped, a intel q9450 or a 2.66 GHz quad core chip that is replacing my very old 2001 intel p4 1.8 GHz computer. Oh how times change.