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>However, a computer tablet was beyond 1970s technology to even analyze, let alone duplicate. I doubt they'd be able to duplicate it, since there's a whole man
by tsotha 12y ago
>However, a computer tablet was beyond 1970s technology to even analyze, let alone duplicate.
I doubt they'd be able to duplicate it, since there's a whole manufacturing infrastructure they'd have to duplicate first. But I doubt they'd have any trouble analyzing it. By 1970 they had integrated circuits, and there were people who were already looking ahead to the possibilities. It's not that hard to pop the plastic off of an IC and look at it with a microscope.
Based on the gestalt of the time, they'd probably look at the tablet and think you should have something more advanced by 2015.
- hga 12y agoThey'd also immediately recognize what the tablet was, and anyone who was familiar with The Mother of All Demos or Xerox PARC's work would recognize the linage. And wonder why the UI was so inconsistent ^_^. As for ICs, the "standard" 7400 series dates back to the mid-60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400_series They'd be impressed by the surface mounting, but that's not a great leap from through hole DIPs. They'd be really impressed by the CPU, since computing resources were so hard to get back then, but putting it all on a single chip is obvious, and e.g. the 4004 dates back to late 1971. Even DRAM dates back to the mid-60s (IBM), with the 1103 (Intel's first DRAM, a whopping 1024 bits) being sold stating in late 1970 (albeit with low yields for a while).