If somehow someone sent you a Playstation 3, 20 years ago

[Barfo]

I'd sell it to some rich kid for $100,000

 

[Duddy]

I would poop on it and eat the controller cable because I'm 1 month old.

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: Imported

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Sell the technology

Ditto. Imagine the technology we'd have today if something like that was out 20 years ago..

Imagine what our kids are gonna see.

You know....besides World War 3rd.

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I would form my own business around it, duplicating and advancing the technology. Imagine how much more powerful ICs would be today with that kind of technology 20 years ago.

Now, imagine how rich and powerful I would be.

You would be even richer than ME!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Farang
Start playing it and then mumble to myself "Sony really fscked up with this one.."

lol best response yet

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: Farang
Start playing it and then mumble to myself "Sony really fscked up with this one.."

BWAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: Farang
Start playing it and then mumble to myself "Sony really fscked up with this one.."

BWAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I used to have dreams like this.

It's 2000 years ago. I'm standing in the town center of a beautiful, serene village that is 5 minutes away from being torn down & pillaged by rampaging hordes. I stand tall, smoke a cigarette, give a gut-wrenching speech to my townspeople in a language they don't understand and pick up my BFG9000....

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Imported

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Sell the technology

Ditto. Imagine the technology we'd have today if something like that was out 20 years ago..

While there have been some significant improvements in microprocessor design in the last 20 years, most of the improvement has come from process improvement / miniaturization. A PS3 wouldn't make a significant difference in the tech we have today. Now, if you brought a plant to make cell processors, lock stock, and barrel you might make a change.

The data flow of the ps3 architecture is a relatively (within the last decade) new concept. Not sure if it would have been possible to implement with older process technology, but the cell architecture is a true design win for many applications. 1 Cell chip may have been the most powerful super computer in the world back then.
Oh, and SGI may have been interested in looking at the techniques utilized in the graphics chip.

Though I wonder if technology back then would even have been advanced enough to look at the circuit in full detail.

 

[mpitts]

I'd complain that someone didn't send me an Xbox 360 instead.

Or I'd complain that it wouldn't play Metroid.

 

[eLiu]

What would people have done with a PS3? It's not like the technology existed in 1987 to duplicate it on the same manufacturing process. And if you duplicate it on a larger process, I'm sure you'd lose a lot of performance. Would people have been able to figure out how it works/how to code for it/etc? PS3 seems complicated enough without having to reverse engineer the whole thing.

That said, assuming there would be buyers, I'd sell it, invest in MS, sell that to invest in Yahoo, and sell that to invest in Google. Win-win-win-win-win.

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: Duddy
I would poop on it and eat the controller cable because I'm 1 month old.

lmao.
i would have been 5, but yeah, I would have said WTF is this!!??

 

[darkxshade]

If someone sent me a PS3 20 years ago, I'd give it to Sony in good faith to tell them what NOT to do 20 years later.

 

[swtethan]

NINTENDOOOO SIXTYYY FOURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
If someone sent me a PS3 20 years ago, I'd give it to Sony in good faith to tell them what NOT to do 20 years later.

naw they'd probably learn the wrong lesson and try to drm cassette tapes.

 

[nonameo]

I'd smash it in front of the pentagon.

 

[ultimatebob]

Sell it to IBM, Motorola, or Intel (I doubt that AMD could have afforded a competing offer back in 1987!). There is a few billion dollars worth of processor R&D technology in that thing!

 

[Cooler]

You could also hit it with a hammer and dig a hole and clame a UFO crashed.

 

[BrianH1]

what i would do with one now. NOTHING.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
What would you do? For argument sake lets say you had a bunch of games, controllers, etc...

There would be only a few less movie and game options in 1987 than there are now.

 

[Wag]

Travel to the future and rule the world!!!

 

[Lurknomore]

Ooh, what if I sold it to Iran or NK back then, imagine the consequences.:Q:evil:

 

[Ricemarine]

Watch as a secret organization comes into my house and takes it?

 

[Goosemaster]

I would have linux on it and sell off the CPU time for millions...

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: Alone
Sell it to Microsoft.

Exactly what I was thinking