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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

Edit:

My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

A real human bean

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 months ago

10 vacuum tubes

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354