Given that the UK government has moved away from engineering ”herd immunity” being the reason to allow schools to remain open I'm leaning towards this being a good thing. It makes sense protecting the elderly from babysitting grandkids. Still makes a lot of assumptions though. 🤞
It was 1959 this was the world’s first mobile computer.
Meet MOBIDIC weighing 12,000 pounds—you could walk into the 30-foot trailer—required 29.76 kW of power.
They ran COBOL and were opening in Karlsruhe, Germany up till 2002.
Cost ~$8 million per.
Avg. smartphone is faster.