> Back in 1979 The image is fantastic but one of the things that makes the story cooler, I think, is that even in 1979 the IBM 7040 was something of a relic. A

> Back in 1979 The image is fantastic but one of the things that makes the story cooler, I think, is that even in 1979 the IBM 7040 was something of a relic. Although only introduced in 1963, it was superseded as early as 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7040 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7040 Just goes to show that if old computer hardware is all you have access to you can still do useful and amazing things.