“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

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@mrundkvist Not in my pocket, I haven't got a car. I hate cars and car culture, which is why I refuse to take driving lessons.

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This is a Macintosh (the original) emulator. It emulates the CPU, video hardware and floppy disk (partly) well enough that you run the original OS and applications on it.

And it runs on a Raspberry Pico ARM microcontroller meant to turn on lights, read sensors and control toys.

https://github.com/evansm7/pico-mac

@jannem @mrundkvist The microcontroller in the power brick of a MacBook is about as powerful as the original Macintosh

https://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html?m=1

@fzer0 @perikitapreta @mrundkvist And many of these appliances could easily get the current time (via NTP, radio clock, GPS,...) or do not really need a clock.