DURAMATRIX112 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

you have to admit this was pretty advanced for 1956

Amishman35 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

64,000 cards to store a 128K 5 minute MP3 file, or you could fill 50 platters with it.

kurizzos (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Thank goodness for 802.11 standards...Still, wireless transmission and satellite are in an initiative state: a cell phone is unreliable when you try to make a call from a basement.Maybe science can shrink the electron to help with such inadequacies. I dunno...

kurizzos (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

metasuperhyper,You may be right.But resetting the assembler would be even more tedious; it's practically resetting the whole system.

metasuperhyper (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

i don't think they had a compiler... propably assembly language.

metasuperhyper (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

used to be compact back then. in another 50 years, your average desktop PC would be less than a cubic inch in size.

DTanza (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Yep it`s 51 years ago today since those were first introduced.

maxrioseco (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

xDD lol debugging this ahaha xDD

everestfalls (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

COMPACT? WTF LOL

bobamu (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

man, that's a lot of wires :Din 50 years time our current computers will look even more antique :D