“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.” — Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team #space - ThreadSky

mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy • 8 days ago

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

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llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@mrundkvist on the other hand, I wonder how long the computer in that key fob would withstand the hard radiation environment of outer space.

LordCaramac.discordian.social.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@mrundkvist Not in my pocket, I haven't got a car. I hate cars and car culture, which is why I refuse to take driving lessons.

jannem.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@mrundkvist
This is a Macintosh (the original) emulator. It emulates the CPU, video hardware and floppy disk (partly) well enough that you run the original OS and applications on it.

And it runs on a Raspberry Pico ARM microcontroller meant to turn on lights, read sensors and control toys […]

martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@mrundkvist Like,

https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/111782633809967989

otyugh.pouet.chapril.org.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@mrundkvist Yeah no. 15% of the world's humanity actually has the luxury of possessing a car.

biglinter.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@mrundkvist the main difference between then and now is the hours you get out of the device.

and thats a real shame.

mzedp.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@mrundkvist Talk about diminishing returns.

stuartl.mastodon.longlandclan.id.au.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@mrundkvist

> I mean the key fob that unlocks your car

Ahh, don't have one of those… but the YubiKeys I carry around might qualify.

jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@mrundkvist my son and I was looking st the Apollo guidance computer, and the exhibit said how much memory it had. My son asked if that was a lot, and I told him, “It wouldn’t be able to load your profile pic.”

dascandy.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@mrundkvist If you want a computer comparable to your cell phone, it's what in the movie Hackers was described as "Supercomputers, like you use to do physics or look for oil".

(source: Hackers is from sept 1995, most recent supercomputer list then was from […]

mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dascandy Tech development has long since passed the stage of sufficient computing power for me to run my basic desktop applications under linux. It's been decades since I was interested in better performance in a laptop. It's like once engineers perfected cars that did 150 kmph, almost nobody […]

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