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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I reckon the difference could be even greater, especially if they get quantum computers working. I forget the exact comparison I read the other day but it would be something like the entire internet's storage on something you carry in your pocket. Processing speeds many orders of magnitude faster than what we have are expected.
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I seem to remember a retailers story of a customer who bought a PC and asked if someone could put the internet on a floppy for him ....
I was an Operator on IBM 1440 & the first 360\20 to come into NZ many moons ago. Also later on the ICL 1900 & 1902. I can remember those big disk drives like washing machines. Never had a head crash cos we had a pressurised aircon computer room. Then there was tape drives with their vacuum systems for controlling tape loops.
And card readers .... and the punch girls .....
