Timeline for How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?
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| Jan 20, 2022 at 0:43 | history | edited | Pharap | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improve wording, add more information.
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| Jan 16, 2022 at 1:29 | history | edited | Pharap | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fix typographical error and clean up phrase.
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| Aug 9, 2018 at 21:17 | history | edited | Pharap | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2017 at 8:03 | comment | added | Darren Bartrup-Cook | @EvSunWoodard my mum worked at Marconi and dropped a box of those punchcards - took hours to put back in the right order. Can also remember my dad bringing home a 30mb Winchester Hard Drive. I swear they make cars smaller than that now. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 17:54 | comment | added | EvSunWoodard | I'm in the same boat as Pharap. The most potent example of change was one of my professors was telling me about what it was like when he went to college for CS. He was on a punchcard system and they only had one computer. So every student would fill out their punch card, get in a ten minute line, and if they messed up at all, they would have to go and do it all over. Assignments would take hours, just because of how much time they would spend waiting in line to use the computer. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | Pharap | @DarrenBartrup-Cook That's much cooler than the modern insistance of "like us on facebook/follow us on twitter for reason X". In turn, that reminds me of a thing Valve did where they encoded hidden images in sound files using SSTV. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:08 | comment | added | Darren Bartrup-Cook | Reminds me of a programme I used to watch where the end credit soundtrack was a download you could record onto tape and then load into your BBC B. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 1:25 | comment | added | Ben I.♦ | Nicely said. And welcome to Computer Science Educators! | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 1:19 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 5, 2017 at 1:16 | history | answered | Pharap | CC BY-SA 3.0 |