29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
10:56 a.m.
Brent mentions Atwood saying:
The question about the moon landing is why haven?t
we been back.
And it was done in an age where computers were as big as a couple of rooms.
If you even look at the Space Odyssey 2001 HAL the computer, and I think
that movie came out in the late 60s, HAL the computer is huge.
We didn?t yet have microchips. So I just wonder, how did they do that?
Why they haven?t done it again if it was so easy?
My day job is a computer that has a $10 Billion (1980's dollars) peripheral.
In other words the computer isn't the end goal :-).
To think that the computer is the peripheral, sometimes trips up even the
senior execs. Really the computer only exists to help the peripheral :-).
Getting back to Atwood's babbling, I don't remember JFK promising to
land a computer on the moon by the end of the decade. And BTW, we have
sent computers to the moon, and landed them on Mars, many times since then,
all in the goal of space science, not in the goal of sending computers there :-)
Tim.