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Beyond 2000 Wearable Computers
Discovery Channel in 1992.
Posted 10 years ago by B2B1 in category: geeky
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spydyrman - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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PHONE ;) I love these old videos.

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Tian (guest) - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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Is that Harold from "Harold and Kumar go to the White Castle" movie??

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heftygrain - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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I can't stop wondering how such advanced spaceflight could have launched (pun intended) before computers were nowhere near advanced.

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Kurbanaani (guest) - 10 years ago
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  Math is crazy isn't it? 
heftygrain - 10 years ago
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  I just mean to say that you need a lot of delicate control to do spaceflight. It's a great feat to do that without our powerful computers. 

Jake (guest) - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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I so want to travel back in time with google glasses and my htc one !!

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HoraceSPatoot - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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@hefty: that's a good observation. There were several factors: computer code was stripped to its bare essentials. Programs were written to be very fast and to occupy a very small amount of memory using tricks that are no longer useful. Most of the big tasks were accomplished by scores of engineers sitting at consoles on the ground, so in a sense there were a lot of ground based computers (including the organic kind) each responsible for an individual task. If telemetry was interrupted the astronauts were essentially helpless.

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