In 50 years, the computer went from a device that filled a room, to something you could hold in the palm of your hand.
Great SR-71 Blackbird video
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Pio1980
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"Moore's law".
I remember transistors were going to be the next advance in electronix, low power consumption and heat, small size, "eternal" life. Hearing aids were the first commercial products to get them ca late 1952/early 1953. Pocket size personal real superheterodyne radio receivers with loudspeakers a scant few years later.
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Pio1980
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These unique SR-71 Blackbird Cockpit photos show why no cockpit demands as much intense focus as a Habu’s
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the...pit-demands-as-much-intense-focus-as-a-habus/
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the...pit-demands-as-much-intense-focus-as-a-habus/
Pio1980
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Sidebar to the spy plane saga;
The Most Secret Program ever developed by famed Lockheed Skunk Works was not the SR-71 Blackbird, but the D-21 Drone and project Senior Bowl
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the...d-but-the-d-21-drone-and-project-senior-bowl/
The Most Secret Program ever developed by famed Lockheed Skunk Works was not the SR-71 Blackbird, but the D-21 Drone and project Senior Bowl
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the...d-but-the-d-21-drone-and-project-senior-bowl/
Pio1980
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Two little Dents placed on the Nose of the Blackbird prevented Surface-to-air Missiles from Scoring any Hit on the SR-71. Here’s how.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/two...-from-scoring-any-hit-on-the-sr-71-heres-how/
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/two...-from-scoring-any-hit-on-the-sr-71-heres-how/
Pio1980
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Here’s why Soviets never developed their own SR-71 and why the MiG-25 Foxbat was never as fast as the Blackbird
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/her...25-foxbat-was-never-as-fast-as-the-blackbird/
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/her...25-foxbat-was-never-as-fast-as-the-blackbird/
MaxxVolume
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Summer of `65, I had a summer job with Schering Pharmaceuticals in their Data Processing Dep`t. Their pride and joy was the IBM 360 computer, complete with punch cards, sorters, collators, magnetic tape drives, etc., all enclosed in a huge "clean-room" environment (NO SMOKING ALLOWED !). This behemoth system would now be totally eclipsed by the average desktop or laptop....
spicer
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Not only would it be totally eclipsed but also equally smaller, and it continues to shrink.
Pio1980
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SR-71 crew members tell the story of when a Blackbird did ’13 Fireballs’ during an air show and explain why Triethylborane was used to ignite JP-7 for engine start and to light the afterburner section
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-...e-jp-7-for-engine-start-and-to-light-the-aft/
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-...e-jp-7-for-engine-start-and-to-light-the-aft/
Pio1980
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In the early 1960s Soviet Union sold titanium to the US believing they needed it for Pizza Ovens but instead they used it to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird
In the early 1960s Soviet Union sold titanium to the US believing they needed it for Pizza Ovens but instead they used it to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spy plane - The Aviation Geek Club
In 1960s Soviet Union sold titanium to the US believing they needed it for Pizza Ovens but instead they used it to build the SR-71 Blackbird
theaviationgeekclub.com
MaxxVolume
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Pio1980
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Not only JP-7: the SR-71 could use JP-4 and JP-5 as emergency fuels but they both limited the Blackbird top speed to Mach 1.5
theaviationgeekclub.com
Not only JP-7: the SR-71 could use JP-4 and JP-5 as emergency fuels but they both limited the Blackbird top speed to Mach 1.5 - The Aviation Geek Club
Not only JP-7: the SR-71 could use JP-4 and JP-5 as emergency fuels but they both limited the Blackbird top speed to Mach 1.5
theaviationgeekclub.com
Pio1980
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65 Years Ago, This Cupboard-Sized Hard Drive Could Only Store One iPhone Photo
The Model 350 featured fifty 24-inch diameter disks stacked on a spindle that spun at 1200 RPM (rounds per minute) -- a fraction of the 10,000 RPMs SATA hard drives are capable of doing today -- and was capable of storing 5 million, 6-bit characters at an areal density of 2,000 bits per square...
www.indiatimes.com
Pio1980
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The US States With Preserved Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Aircraft
A look at all the museums in the United States where you can still see a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
simpleflying.com
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