Al Gore and his Palm Pilot

[Neos]

Sitting here listening to Al Gore. He said that his Palm Pilot had more computing power than one of the first space shots.
Am I to believe that we sent a rocket in space (with a man) with only 8 mg. of ram?
Sounds like another Al Gore whopper.
Neos

 

[BoberFett]

Clinton could probably tell some good stories about his palm pilot.

 

[Total Refected Power]

No, he's probably right. It has been 40 years!

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

Neos, I beleive Mr. Gore is correct. The Command Module of the Apollo rocket has less computing power than a typical 1990 automobile's fuel injection system.

 

[MotoKamui]

He's correct. My CALCULATOR(a HP-48GX) has more processing power than Apollo did.

 

[jjm]

He is absolutely right. I believe the crude "computer" had less than 1 MB of memory.

The shuttles were using the equivalent of 386s until a couple of years ago.

 

[Neos]

Damn! I was hoping that we caught him again.
Oh, well ...I am sure he will flub somewhere else along the way.
Neos

 

[NFS4]

He wasn't lying that time

 

[JoeBaD]

You guys don't know what you're talking about.

How about 11kb YES! KB!

I remember reading about this years ago. The programers had to write code so tight there wasn't a period or space that wasn't absolutely needed.

Chew on that!

 

[thebestMAX]

Having memory and computing power and using it are two different things.

 

[DirkBelig]

That brings the score to:

Times Gore's told the truth: 23
Times Gore's lied like a rug: 12,594,593,798 (though the weekend's coming up. This may change.)

 

[JoeBaD]

Screw Gore,

Don't any of you find it amazing that the went to the moon and back on 11 kb !!??

 

[Neos]

JoeBad ...spell that out a bit clearer, please.
Are you saying that he was stretching it again.

Red Dawn ...just uninformed ...that is I, but at least I know it. Mr. Gore does not seem to have clue about that part.
Neos

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

<<<< Times Gore's lied like a rug: 12,594,593,798 (though the weekend's coming up. This may change.) >>>>

The pot is calling the kettle black. How many times have you lied?

 

[Killbat]

&quot;Don't any of you find it amazing that the went to the moon and back on 11 kb !!??&quot;

I hate my generation. I didn't know it had more than 1KB. Not all problems can (or should) be solved by brute force computer power. The SR-71 Blackbird was designed with pencil, paper, and slide rule.

 

[JoeBaD]

OT in OT

More trivia,

did you know that the SR-71 was actually the RS-71

The &quot;R&quot; was for reconnaissanse.

Pres. Lyndon Johnson mistakenly called it an SR-71 in a speech and rather than look foolish had the entire program renamed!

Wonder how much that cost us.

 

[geno]

The average pocket calculator has more computing power than the old computers that took up warehouses (Can't remember the name, was it HVAC??)

 

[JoeBaD]

Amen to that Red!

Funny how history seems to make it Nixon's war when it was Kennedy and Johnson who got us deep into it.

 

[thebestMAX]

Look out, Guys-

RED has changed his avitar and signature yet again. Whats next, will he declare for a particular party????

 

[jjm]

One of the earliest computers was univac. HVAC is the abbreviation for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. Good try, though!

 

[OS]

Gore wasn't lying there. That's what exponential growth in the computer industry does for you. Computers that could recognize human writing were science fiction in the 60s. Let alone one that you could hold in your shirt pocket.

 

[DirkBelig]

KarsinTheHutt = George Washington.

He never told a lie.

 

[konichiwa]

LOL, Red.

 

[thebestMAX]

Used to work for UNIVAC.

Tested many 432 revolving drum memories and larger units. 432s were about the size of a keg of beer and guess how much they stored. We are not talking gigabytes here folks. Not megs either. This was in 1969 and we've come a long way.

NASA was a big customer as I recall.

 

[pidge]

Did Gore take credit for inventing the Palmpilot?