> But modern computers can do infinitely more than those early multi-ton monsters and even the first PCs [as in IBM and clones] But even things like word processing and games are beyond the notion if what a computer is supposed to do.
I spent the summer of 1969 at the Manned Spacecraft Center south of Houston. The Apollo flights were managed by several (3 or 5) linked IBM 360/50 mainframe computers, each of which probably had the storage capabilities of an iPhone, but not the speed.
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