I just realized today that a game my daughter was playing on the New York Philharmonic’s kids site is as powerful as a physic’s program on a Mac in high school.  I remember being over at a friend’s house in high school (probably about 1990, 1991) and playing with some physics program – things bouncing around.  That was cutting edge at the time – I think it was a Macintosh Classic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic) – because I remember you could carry it around.

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