[geeks] Wishful thinking... Discussion primer

[Bill Bradford]

Copying this here from my Facebook post.. Would love to see thoughts.



How much technological change could you bring about by taking a shipping
container full of 2016-era computers (and full copy of wikipedia) to 1975?

Presume the shipping container has enough equipment to set up a couple of small
datacenters along with numerous desktop workstations, and all required
networking gear, switches, routers, and spare parts.  

Also included: Installable copies of all major operating systems (especially
free/open source ones with full source code), along with stuff like simh for
emulation of 1975-current hardware on the faster gear.  

What else would you be sure to include??



Alternate discussion: 

Given the same shipping container full of stuff, what year would you take it
back to, to have maximum impact? 

The transistor was invented in 1947...

Assuming that you've got the entire container of gear for reference
information, what timeframe would the receiving society be able to start
replicating (on a smaller/less intricate scale) stuff like early ICs?



Discuss!

Bill

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Bill Bradford
Houston, Texas USA