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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.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

Who said anything about transistors, I was talking about these fucking beauties: (pic 1)

This is what the inside of a 1940's computer looked like: (pic 2)

The definition of a computer starts with colossus, it was Turing complete, it was programmable, it could solve any equation that would fit within it's memory. There is no other point more significant which you could define as being hte first computer, it is genesis. There is no definition of computer that it does not meet, just because you can't play quake on it, doesn't change that. Get with the program, you cannot out nerd me, You pocket calculator by the way is less powerful than the Difference Engine... it's only asset is size.

Go read about Turing Machines, and you will see that both collosus and your PC and just pittiful attempts at approximating such a device. in the grand scale of it, they are the same, on a scale to infinity, one and one million are barely distinguishable.

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Look what I found! Hidden artwork inside the microchips almost at the molecular level, measuring only a few microns! (1 micron = one millionth of a metre)

1) The Thor image was found inside a Hewlett-Packard graphics chip.

2) The sword or excalibre only 300 microns long, was hidden in a Macintosh G3 motorola(powerpc 750) chip.

3) The Herd of Buffaloes were imprinted inside the chip by HP engineer Dick Vlach. It was discovered in a Hewlett-Packard 64-bit combinatorial divider Focus II Math chip.

4) The tiny Gnome or Smurf pulling a cart was spotted in a Siemens IC M879-A3. The smurf idea was first created by the Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, also known as Peyo (June 25, 1928 – December 24, 1992), back in the 1970s. This particular IC artwork is only 60 microns long!

5) This Playboy icon was hiding inside a German Siemens chip. I wonder what it was doing inside?

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This kind of art is also called Silicon Art or Chip Graffiti... its similar to the software easter eggs , only its not software, but integrated inside the IC by photo-lithography! The engineers who designed those, must also be artists with a huge sense of humour. They must have known all along that very few people are going to peep inside a microchip and find their artwork.

6) A camel in a Sequent motherboard!.

7) The Christmas Tree bearing the spirit of happiness was resting peacefully inside a Micronas MSP3450G chip.

8) This beautiful Land-Shark, was dreaming about Candy grams hiding deep inside an Analog Device AD1939.

9) this antique automobile was cruising along in an NMAH chip.

10) A toon frog playing a guitar and singing silently inside an Analog Device2175digital-signal-processor.

Anyone seen the work of Noelle Walker?
http://seattleweekly.com/events/tacoma-screwd-476896

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

oh yea, there's loads of cool stuff on chips.

Kilroy was here.

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Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna

oh yea, there's loads of cool stuff on chips.

Kilroy was here.

Na Na, Anna, you're from UK, so you say, "Chad, or Foo was here."

People from the US say "Kilroy".