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Addendum 2: Digital cameras versus the Space Shuttle
I make the comment all the time, "Your digital camera has more computing
power than the space shuttle! Is that true? Let's look at the facts:
Space Shuttle:
Computer:
Computer is a hardened derivative of the
IBM 360 mainframe, first introduced in
1964.
480,000 operations per second
Memory:
700 Kbytes core memory
Cost:
$5 billion development, Minimum
$113,000 (1964 dollars) each.
Camera:
Most use an advanced RISC processor, 80
MHz, with one operation per clock.
80,000,000 operations per second
Advantage Camera: 166x
Internal: 32 Mbytes
Card: 128 Mbytes
Advantage Camera: 228x
$150 - $600 (2004 dollars) or more
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