I spent hours

I just got done watching the 1960's movie "Colossus: the Forbin Project". That computer was longer than an airplane hangar.

 

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I don't have an Ipod, but what can you access with one? Maybe it is the Iphone that has all of the stuff.

 

I thought it was the crashed alien ship in area 51 that gave us the technology.

 

That's one theory. I sure ain't gonna go there. But some things really happened afterwards. I tried driving out to see it once before everything got moved to Area 81. When the armed guards showed up, I turned back. I didn't need to satisfy my curiosity after all. LOL

 

Actually I have a number of friends who put GNU/Linux and android on it.

Ruben

 

With Linux, you would have access to google's cloud and I believe they have more computing power than NASA had in 1968.

 

I remember having to take handfuls of vacuum tubed from the radios and TVs to the local radio shack or 7-11 to test them on their machines when one went out.

The use of the transistor (essentially two diodes with the ground shared) in place of these tubes started the Solid State Revolution. The Japanese started with the hand held radios for between $5 and $10 while the American electronics revised the desk top models for $20 to $50. Then, once solid state was in use, it was only a matter of time before we got to circuit boards and then smaller and grander things.

 

Unfortunately, my first computer (TI 4) That's 4K or 4,000 bytes didn't have instructions and I didn't know I needed a monitor. So it just sat there. My first WORKING computer game was PONG.

 

Pong was fun!.....for about ten minutes.:goof:

 

We had a Mangavox Pong. But that machine had lousy standard input. My first was the Vic20, followed by a TI, and a CoCo2 (TSR80)

Ruben

 

You gotta catch Tracy and Hepburn in "Desk Set"......

 

mY FIRST was a HP Pavilion Laptop I bought new in 2004. The kids had them earlier for school, but I had never even turned one on. As an ancient adult with no background and no help, this thing consumed time like a tape worm. The simplest tasks took days because I lacked a working vocabulary. I simply could not understand the instructions at all. It was like teaching yourself to read without a tutor. LOL At least I learned the meaning og "user friendly". It ain't !

 

Both Windows and Macs are extremely non-user friendly.

 

NASA, however, functioned a little above the cloud.

 

Seriously, without any background or anyone to learn from, the task was daunting. Everything went wrong. It took a lot of trial and error. I finally created some spreadsheet programs for handicapping. I spent weeks and weeks on the first one. The instrucrtions were like reading Romulan. LOL I still only have learned the basics, but am growing every day.