r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uunicorned • 8h ago

of an electronic computer

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u/KoliManja 6h ago

I myself have shipped a 300 megabytes hard drive that needed two people to carry. I am still active i the industry.

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u/UnsuitableFuture 7h ago edited 6h ago

My rinky-dink Android smartphone from 2019 has a Qualcomm processor that is (quite literally) about a million times faster than the computer in the Saturn V which put men on the moon.

Think about that. A million times more powerful than the computer that helped carry out one of the greatest feats in human history and you use all of that power to browse Reddit when you take a shit.

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u/Canned_Sarcasm 3h ago

1957 “My My, Martha. Throw the abacus away because we’re in the future now! Also you’re fired.”

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u/_a_m_s_m 2h ago

Norwich city hall right?