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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (9904)	11/18/2010 8:27:36 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 69300

I remember seeing an Apollo LM computer at the Smithsonian, back before they killed the Museum of History and Technology. It had the most marvelous collection of scientific and engineering apparatus. Most of the way-cool Geek factor stuff was pulled and replaced with a truly execrable installation of pop-culture flotsam. I do not contest your protestation that the Apollo computers were primitive by today's benchmarks. I do think that from that computer to today's much more capable (and affordable) iPhone, for example, an unbroken line can be drawn. Consumer electronics have undergone tremendous evolution over the last 40 years. I see those advances as incremental. Has a fundamentally novel electronic or cybernetic device been brough to market in that time? Mind you I'm not saying "no". I am saying "can't think of one". cheers js

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