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    That thing is only marginally worse than what we've got now. Incredible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nova_robotics View Post
    That thing is only marginally worse than what we've got now. Incredible.
    I was thinking that. It looks pretty clever for that period way before microprocessors.
    I often tell people that it is a mistake to think that people in times past were less clever than those of today. As Newton said in much earlier times "I stood on the shoulders of giants."



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