You probably have a computer in your pocket that's more powerful than the ones they used to land men on the moon...seriously!

I remember watching Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in "Apollo 13" conducting a tour group through NASA & telling them about the new super computer that fits all in one room. Your smartphone, by comparison, makes that look pretty primitive. A couple years ago,  I had a conversation with my mother to that effect. I told her the iphone I was using was far superior to that. She lives in Virginia. I'm in Lafayette, La. Mom's computer had crashed & she was feeling isolated. Someone suggested she get an ipad. When I told her she could not only use it to access her Facebook & email accounts, but we could video chat, she was intrigued. I gave her one for Christmas that year. She was very pleased.

That's a far cry from the computer in this 1977 commercial. The IBM 5100 was a big deal at the time. By the way, it weighed 50 pounds! So, take your phone out of your pocket, take a look at it, and watch this commercial. For that matter, watch it ON your phone!

 

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