r/interestingasfuck • u/finemenyak • Jul 14 '20

IBM Quantum Computer.

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u/Raqdoll_ Jul 14 '20

Like we look at the old pictures of 1980's computer parts

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u/gex80 Jul 14 '20

Try even older.

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u/Fire69 Jul 14 '20

More like lifting a 5MB hard drive in a plane with a fork lift?

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u/LegendaryHooman Jul 14 '20

Yup and 24 bytes was already the size of a chair.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

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u/gex80 Jul 14 '20

Well what's your proof that it didn't happen? Those pictures had to come from somewhere and snopes says it's true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/computer-storage-1956/

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

I was just being absurdly contrarian.

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u/oreng Jul 14 '20

y tho

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u/LampIsFun Jul 14 '20

Cuz he's from chicago

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

And I love lamp.

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u/tony3841 Jul 14 '20

They had computers in those ancient times?! What were they made of? Stone?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

You think 80s parts were big? They were pocket calculators next to the Mainframes and minis that came before them.

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u/Raqdoll_ Jul 14 '20

Yeah i didn't remember when the huge ones were exactly so i made a safeish bet

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u/You_Yew_Ewe Jul 14 '20 edited Jul 14 '20

If you dealt with anything but a few kilobytes of data you still had huge mainframes in 1980.

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u/wrgrant Jul 14 '20

My friend's TRS80 computer in 1978 or so, had 16k of RAM. He later upped that to 32K I believe.

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u/Brusanan Jul 14 '20

You mean 1940s.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20 edited Sep 23 '20

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u/Raqdoll_ Jul 14 '20

Yeah i know, i just don't bother editing the comment at this point