Amazing technology. Any smart phone is far more powerful then all the computers used for the moon shot. we have made our space vehicles too complicated.
40MB..that was an astounding amount of hard drive storage space..
I got out of the computer operations biz in 85 and saw the huge changes coming. Comparing my PC or even my phone to these huge IBM 360 systems I worked on is amazing. 2314 disks/drives were enormous yet only held 30mb, 3330 drives held 100mb(or dual density 200mb). Seems like just yesterday. Had a dial up monitor/modem at home that ran at 300 baud via TSO..you would see letters form 1 pixel at a time..Same time frame, circa 85-90, working in a DEC environment, for some reason it was ok to spend mega $ on the DEC hardware, microvaxes with dual 33 or 60 Mb disk drives, but it wasn't ok to requisition/buy small disk drives for PCs. We'd wait until someone's back was turned and a PC would magically have a 33 Mb drive.
I remember it well, except I was working on Control Data Cyber computers instead of IBM. One of our pre-processors had to be bootstrap cold started with physical switches so it could read a paper tape, THEN it could load a program from 9track tape.I got out of the computer operations biz in 85 and saw the huge changes coming. Comparing my PC or even my phone to these huge IBM 360 systems I worked on is amazing. 2314 disks/drives were enormous yet only held 30mb, 3330 drives held 100mb(or dual density 200mb). Seems like just yesterday. Had a dial up monitor/modem at home that ran at 300 baud via TSO..you would see letters form 1 pixel at a time..
Had a Honeywell mainframe in our shop that did the same, we called it the Dippy..think it was model DDP 662 or something like that.I remember it well, except I was working on Control Data Cyber computers instead of IBM. One of our pre-processors had to be bootstrap cold started with physical switches so it could read a paper tape, THEN it could load a program from 9track tape.
Amazing technology. Any smart phone is far more powerful then all the computers used for the moon shot. we have made our space vehicles too complicated.
I'll go "contrarian" here (to a certain extent).Not even close to complicated enough.
I would say the privates are accepting risk that NASA never would, which is why they have accomplished so much in such a short time span.
I remember it well, except I was working on Control Data Cyber computers instead of IBM. One of our pre-processors had to be bootstrap cold started with physical switches so it could read a paper tape, THEN it could load a program from 9track tape.
I would say the privates are accepting risk that NASA never would, which is why they have accomplished so much in such a short time span.
Govt issues launch licenses,