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I remember reading an article eons ago about the tech used for OCR at USPS in what I'm pretry sure was Wired. If I remember correctly, on each sorting line they
by voxadam 1y ago
I remember reading an article eons ago about the tech used for OCR at USPS in what I'm pretry sure was Wired. If I remember correctly, on each sorting line they were using something like 10 dual or quad 200 MHz Pentium Pro systems to accomplish the ultra high speed recognition that they required. That amount of computing power was absolutely mind bending to me at the time, now days it's laughable, a Raspberry Pi would blow it out of the water.
- ctkhn 1y agoMy parents in the late 80s or early 90s had a computer with some low MB number for storage. Not sure if hard drive or what, but it's wild thinking about how far consumer stuff has come too.
- jonah-archive 1y agoOur first home computer was a 386SX with a 300MB hard drive and 4MB of RAM, which seemed amazingly capacious at the time.
- positr0n 1y agoInternet speed too. I remember my mom complaining whenever anyone emailed her pictures because it tied up the internet/phone line for half an hour while they were downloading.