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April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software. Originally based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Microsoft relocated to Washington State in 1979 and eventually grew into a major multinational technology corporation. In 1987, the year after Microsoft went public, 31-year-old Gates became the world’s youngest billionaire.

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... and introduced us to the "Control + Alt + Delete" dance to recover & reboot.

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I find it unbelievable how much technology had changed in  the past one hundred years.   The previous thousands of years manual labor, and animals did the work.  Then the industrial revolution began and looks at what we have at our finger tips now. It wasn't much more than one hundred years ago man took to flying, fifty years later walking on the moon and here we are flying four Americans around it again.   If I understand correctly the computer power for the first moon flights had less power than our cell phones.   

 

Just think.  Only a hand full of countries on this globe have the ability to put a man on the moon.  We are blessed to be a part of this wonderful country.  

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15 minutes ago, Beap52 said:

I find it unbelievable how much technology had changed in  the past one hundred years.   The previous thousands of years manual labor, and animals did the work.  Then the industrial revolution began and looks at what we have at our finger tips now. It wasn't much more than one hundred years ago man took to flying, fifty years later walking on the moon and here we are flying four Americans around it again.   If I understand correctly the computer power for the first moon flights had less power than our cell phones.   

 

Just think.  Only a hand full of countries on this globe have the ability to put a man on the moon.  We are blessed to be a part of this wonderful country.  

 

1) I think one of those guys is Canadian

 

2) The computers on the Apollo missions had less computing power than a modern wrist watch, and probably less than most modern car keys.