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Charlie Stross

Toot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!

(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)

Photograph of the front panel of an IBM System/360 mainframe—an adult person height red box about 1.5 metres deep, with a panel of blinkenlights and rotary dials (and some buttons). A desk sits in front of it, presumably for the operator's teletype printer.
Mark Dennehy

@cstross Behold, the Cray-1, far more impressive than the Apple 1...

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Charlie Stross

@markdennehy Absolutely more majestic than the Apple 1! Also considerably less powerful than an iPhone 5. (For "several orders of magnitude" values of "considerably".)

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Mark Dennehy

@cstross I'm still laughing at that talk a week or so ago where one of the Voyager people was saying everyone in the audience had a more powerful computer than the Voyager probe did in their pocket - not their phone, but the key fob for their car...

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