{"id":741,"date":"2011-02-07T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2011-02-08T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:41:45","slug":"the-secret-world-of-embedded-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/741\/the-secret-world-of-embedded-computers","title":{"rendered":"The Secret World of Embedded Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2379383,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcmag\/secretcpu_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Secret World of Embedded Computers on PCMag.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can now buy a $5 pregnancy test that casually wields more CPU power than an Apple II.  The Xbox S controller &#8212; by itself &#8212; packs more raw processing muscle than a SNES.<\/p>\n<p>Those are merely two of the fascinating things you&#8217;ll learn if you check out my latest feature for PCmag.com, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2379383,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret World of Embedded Computers<\/a>.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a dee-luxe slideshow that reveals computers at the heart of surprising consumer gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a couple shout-outs for vintage technology in there (not quite as surprising), so the slideshow is at least somewhat <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-relevant.  Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now buy a $5 pregnancy test that casually wields more CPU power than an Apple II. The Xbox S controller &#8212; by itself &#8212; packs more raw processing muscle than a SNES. Those are merely two of the fascinating things you&#8217;ll learn if you check out my latest feature for PCmag.com, &#8220;The Secret [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-technology-commentary","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}