"(1/1000th of 1 MHz, much as 1 MHz is 1/1000 of 1 GHz)"
Half of 1 MHz is 500 KHz not 500 Hz ... it may sound slow but the PIC uCs we were using in the '90s were clocked at 20 MHz maximum and executed about 4 MIPS. For the 1960s, that computer really was rocket science!
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"(1/1000th of 1 MHz, much as 1 MHz is 1/1000 of 1 GHz)"
Half of 1 MHz is 500 KHz not 500 Hz ... it may sound slow but the PIC uCs we were using in the '90s were clocked at 20 MHz maximum and executed about 4 MIPS. For the 1960s, that computer really was rocket science!