Its now a lot cheaper in the 1980's than when I worked at the worlds leading hydrodynamics orgs. I briefly looked at using neural nets to analyse data from an

Its now a lot cheaper in the 1980's than when I worked at the worlds leading hydrodynamics orgs. I briefly looked at using neural nets to analyse data from an experiment - analysing the efficacy of toilet bowl designs. The entry level hardware was £250k in 1981 - it was much cheaper to take photo's and have a research assistant count squares. Now you could use fairly cheap commodity hardware to do it. It would have been an amazing cutting edge project if we could have got some government funding we did have an in-house knowledge engineer.