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This is a Macintosh (the original) emulator. It emulates the CPU, video hardware and floppy disk (partly) well enough that you run the original OS and applications on it.

And it runs on a Raspberry Pico ARM microcontroller meant to turn on lights, read sensors and control toys.

https://github.com/evansm7/pico-mac

@mrundkvist it's not in my pocket. I'm a woman, it doesn't fit in my pockets. You'd be hard pressed to get a coin in my pockets.

@mrundkvist @christineburns the phone is probably more computer than NASA had in *total* at the time of launch.

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1997: Every appliance in your house has a clock and it's blinking >>00:00<<

2025: Every appliance in your house has an IP address and the password is >admin

@mrundkvist Yeah no. 15% of the world's humanity actually has the luxury of possessing a car.

@mrundkvist hang on, is the computer on Voyager more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer? It certainly has more RAM. It would make sense, as it was launched later and had to be autonomous while the APC had a human operator.

I ask because the version of this I heard was "the (second) computer in your pocket is more powerful than the one that *landed on the moon*"

@mrundkvist "everyone" - ummm...

(not only do i not have a car, i don't currently have a pocket)

@mrundkvist wasn't there a blogpost or something some years ago comparing the computing power of simple USB-chargers with the Apollo flight computer? 🤔 😂

@mrundkvist the e-marker chip in a usb-c cable is more powerful than early supercomputers

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@mrundkvist key fob? There's no key fob in my pocket. Well, I'm blind so that makes it even more silly but I'm talking about the idea that the key fob is dropped in favor of using the phone as a key with that nifty new feature that our truck doesn't support. *whimper*

@mrundkvist The chip of a sim card is probably not far of either in terms of performance.

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That means ...

... my keyfob can play DOOM?

@mrundkvist Talk about diminishing returns.

@mrundkvist If you want a computer comparable to your cell phone, it's what in the movie Hackers was described as "Supercomputers, like you use to do physics or look for oil".

(source: Hackers is from sept 1995, most recent supercomputer list then was from https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1995/06/ which lists the best one as doing ~200GFlop/s - which is about half of the current top mobile phone CPU. Alternatively take an Adreno 610 mobile gpu, which runs about 300GFLOP/s - which you'd get in an Oppo A53 from 5 years ago for about $200)

@mrundkvist Not in my pocket, I haven't got a car. I hate cars and car culture, which is why I refuse to take driving lessons.

@mrundkvist Like,

https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/111782633809967989

@mrundkvist I hate to disappoint you, but I only have two[1] handkerchiefs and a Swiss armyknife in my pockets.

[1] As my father told me, one for yourself, and ond for your child.

@mrundkvist this is a paraphrase from 'the farthest', a fascinating pbs documentary that i hadn't seen. thank you for providing the spark for me to seek it out!

… [A]t the time, the biggest computers in the world were comparable to the kinds of things we have in our pockets today. And I'm not talking about a cell phone — [produces item from pocket] I'm actually talking about a key fob.

https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/

#PBS #voyager #TheFarthest

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Any USB optical mouse since about the turn of the century has at least a 12 MHz processor because it needs that to talk the USB protocol, which makes it faster than any computer in the world in 1977, and it has a second processor that tracks the image the mouse is looking at and figures out which way it's moving, and it's doubtful any computer in the world in 1977 could have done that in real-time.