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Originally Posted by SS-Anna the battleship

There is no operation that one cannot perform that another can given enough storage. Essentially if you had enough tape, good enough programming skill and a very long life span, you could apply the same image manipulations with colossus as you do with photoshop on your laptop. of course your image would be displayed as a very long binary number on a very long piece of paper. You would also have a very long beard.

Your logic leads us to believe that those first transister computers could do all the things contemporary multi-core machines (mine is intel core2 duo) or more advanced ones can do, only much slower. Buts thats such an absurd generalization! Even you are laughing at this joke (behind your keyboard now... I can almost see it!). Things get better, its called progress, improvement, technical development. Those old machines could never render a 3d scene we do now. Or could they possibly interpret a CAT scan or simulate the flight of an unmanned aircraft? Or could they be of any use in a particle accelerator like a cyclotron? (perhaps they can be used to regulate the temperature in a coffee percolator!)

Regarding software of choice:
why dont we all stick to the assembly language and stop using all these user-friendly softwares? Lets replace Java or .Net with good old Assembly language and return to a technical stone age again. I still have my Qbasic stashed out somewhere.