Imagine in the 1960's most had little idea of the world that the transistor would herald beyond that of maybe transistor radios and colour Tv's! Personal computers weren't even in most peoples imagination given that the movies and media of the day painted a picture of computing equating to giant super computers.

Imagine in the 1970's when few paid attention to Intel's 4004 processor that started the microprocessor ball rolling all thanks to Japan's Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation (Busicom) that contracted the tech start up to design 12 custom chips for them, in response to which rather than developing 12 custom chips Intel decided it was more cost effective to just develop one multipurpose processor that could be programmed and so was born what would become the 4004. Only one problem the Japanese company Busicom owned the rights to the chip! Intel eventually offered to return Busicom's $60k investment in exchange for the rights which the struggling Japanese company agreed to and the rest is history! Or will be when IBM gave Intel what it had been seeking for a decade, a big buyer with deep pockets to commit to volume orders for it's processors by ordering 10,000 units per year from 1982 onwards. All forgotten today just how small Intel was for a good 13 years since inception and that it was only when IBM started making use of Intel processors in IBM PC's that Intel started to take off.

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Monday, April 27, 2020

How My Quantum Computer Interpreted and Predicted the Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 - DEVS Machine / Politics / Quantum Computing

By: N_Walayat

This video shows how my Quantum Computer interpreted the unfolding Coronavirus events from late January that forecast the world was heading towards a pandemic just as Quantum computers such as that of DEVS of millions if not billions of Qubits offer the promise of being able to simulate reality and then project simulations backwards and forwards in time. Whilst DEVS is sci-fi that likely is a good 20 years away from becoming anywhere close to reality. However, do bear in mind that there already are several billion working quantum computers on the planet right now with the ability should the be so tuned to to simulate the past and project into probable futures and thus allow actions to be taken accordingly.

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