interesting stuff this. Particularly respect the commentsof WE Branch Fanatic. however:
I leared to compute on a Tandy TRS80 in 1981. The dogs hind legs, it had a 14 inch black and white monitor, twin 5 1/4 inch disk drives and 16 meg of RAM. - it was crap. Now, here we are with 2 gig processors on desktops, and flying across the atlantic on 2 engines. What we were achieving in 1982 in the falklands with weapons systems was incredible then but primitive now. Who knows what is going on deep deep in labs across the world