RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

11/23/2015

NOVEMBER 23

On this date in 1992, not very long ago, IBM introduced at a technology trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada the world's first smart phone .  When it was first marketed to the public in late 1994, they called it Simon.

The IBM Simon weighed 18 oz and my iPhone 5C weighs 4.7 oz.  Simon had 1 MB of memory and 1 MB of storage.  My iPhone has 1 GB of memory (1,000 times as much) and 16 GB of storage (16,000 times as much).

Absolutely amazing to me.  Ho hum to my grandchildren.
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