[domenad]

I love the fact that the phone I carry in my pocket has far more computing power than desk-sized workstation I learned on as a kid.

[DManA]

I hate the fact that I’m so old that when I was a kid state of the art offices had adding machines with crank handles.

[VA_Gentleman]

The computer chip in my cell phone is more powerful than the computers used to launch the first rockets into space.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I was just reading a review of the Droid2 which has a Texas Instrument processor that is a SoC of 1 Mhz.

I'll drop the link here just in case anyone cares:

Motorola Droid 2 Review: Rebooting the Droid

[freedumb2003]

>>I love the fact that the phone I carry in my pocket has far more computing power than desk-sized workstation I learned on as a kid.<<

The phone I carry has more computing power and storage than the mainframe I worked on that filled a LARGE ROOM. We spoke in K and Megs — Gigabytes were for “big shops” like banks, oil companies and the IRS (still probably owner of one of the biggest databases in the world).

[Mygirlsmom]

the phone I carry in my pocket has far more computing power than those that took us to the moon and back.

[Monkey Face]

The phone you carry has far more computing power than the first manned space capsule.

[SeeSac]

I love the fact that the phone I carry in my pocket has far more computing power than desk-sized workstation I learned on as a kid.

When I was a kid, the 'computer' on my 'workstation' was a slide-rule.