[vcf-midatlantic] update: "modern history" exhibit

[Dan Roganti]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Here are the items we have for the modern history exhibit ("everything on
> this wall is now in your phone"):
>
> - alarm clock
> - notepad
> - newspaper
> - flashlight
> - pedometer
> - stopwatch
> - TV Guide
> - digital voice recorder (somehow we got two of these)
> - protractor
> - wristwatch
> - book
> - camera
> - calculator
> - scanner (but we may omit this due to size)
>
> Here is what we still need:
> - small calendar
> - address book
> - stand-alone radio
> - pocket dictionary
> - directional compass
> - ipod (doesn't have to work -- we have one but we're using it for another
> purpose)
> - roadmap
> - Gameboy
> - photo album
> - credit card (how do we get one with a fake number?)
> - remote control for a TV
> - small portable TV (we may have one in the warehouse, I'm not sure)
> - answering machine
> - thermal-paper fax machine
>


​​you left out the most obvious category, the computer
today's phones have enough number crunching power replacing even
supercomputers up to 1990[maybe even later]
the processing power of today's phones ​together with their gpu's approach
several 100 gflops
so you could, together with a bluetooth keyboard, write code and/or
install/build software comparable to what you use on a desktop.
so much of the work we did on a desktop which required hours of computation
time could be done in minutes on your smartphone
now if they could only hook up a big monitor is a different question :)
Dan
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