On 16 Aug 2004, at 14:41, Jack Campin wrote:
The odd thing is, here am I, more than 30 years on, sitting at a Power Mac 9600/200 with 384Mb of memory - whereas the 1130 had 32Kb, I think, and presumably ran at a few thousand instructions per second - but despite having a few gigabytes of software under the table I couldn't do the same analysis now. I couldn't have imagined there'd ever be a computer you couldn't run Fortran on.
Nowadays you could probably do that calculation in Excel...
Phil Taylor
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