Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 9 months agoIt’s a BangleJS. So, not super powerful, but I can program it myself and it has gps, gyro, Bluetooth, and two weeks of battery (assuming I’m not using that stuff constantly.)
davidgro@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A Casio nothing-watch has more power than the Apollo computers, so yeah, definitely many orders of magnitude for the BangleJS.
ripcord@kbin.social 9 months ago
Does it?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Yup. One of those cards that plays a tune when you open it is more powerful than the Apollo computer. Apollo was only working on 4kb of RAM and 74kb of ROM.
If I had been in charge of figuring out how to make that work everyone would definitely be dead.
ripcord@kbin.social 9 months ago
Those cards are more powerful than the watches I'm thinking of when people say "Casio nothing-watch", I think is what I was getting at. I'm thinking simple digital watches from the 80s/90s/2000s, kind of thing. As far as I know they have no real programmable logic, and anything that might be considered RAM is under 1KB.
But yeah those cards that actually play recorded samples are probably more powerful general computers than onboard Apollo, that's a good comparison.
Still, those computers and stuff like the Saturn instrument unit were freaking marvels, considering what all they could actually do with so little.
rynzcycle@kbin.social 9 months ago
Houston we have no idea what our trajectory is and it's just playing happy birthday over and over.