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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

What “supercomputer” did they use in 1968 to make the chip shape when Pringles were invented?

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My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

A real human bean

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

10 vacuum tubes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

ENIAC was built in 1945. And Cray was building supercomputers in the 60s

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I understand that there were “supercomputers” for the day, but I don’t think they called them that. They were just computers. I want to know exactly which one was used to design a reconstituted potato chip.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 1 points 4 months ago

My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess they needed it to mathematically design and calculate with it but idk

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 1 points 4 months ago

My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354