Recently, I visited an organization called TechWorks near downtown Binghamton, New York, which is a combination museum and educational center. Because today is a Wordless Wednesday, I will just show you some vintage computer equipment from the early 1960's. This may have been equipment similar to that used in early space programs.
IBM 1440 computer. This ran some $90,000 (in 1962 dollars!) and up and wasn't too powerful by today's standards.
Something powered by vacumn tubes (top of item), which predate transistors and the modern technology of today.
Just imagine, humankind went to the moon using equipment not too far advanced from these items. Now, we hold more power in the palm of our hands, but we make other choices.
The moon awaits. Will we choose it again one day? Wil this anniversary respark interest?
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My former husband was an aerospace engineer. He worked on the propulsion system for the Saturn V. When we visited Cape Kennedy with our sons, it was like having our own personal tour guide.
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ReplyDeletethe lunar module was built here on Long island. the Cradle of Aviation Museum has a model of it in their lobby.
I was in some computer class a few years back. On the wall he had a picture of what 1950s people thought a computer in 2000 would look like. It was wildly off base.
ReplyDelete"Now, we hold more power in the palm of our hands, but we make other choices."
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more on that, Alana!
Those were some monstrous machines that we had. I remember coming across these in my son's school text book that traced the origins of our computers!