Think you two guys might be missing each other's point, but I have a
long list of emails yet to read to prove it.
Gabe admits technology has advanced, but think his point is at a
different place. Philosophically perhaps, not sure.
That's why I think I asked earlier this morning where was the sighted
community 20 years later. Or was that in one of the several replies
I atempted and deleeted. Can't remember for sure now, sort of a long
day.
On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Oh come on, how can you possibly say we've gone nowhere. In 1986,
I was using a 4.77MHZ XT machine with 256K quickly upgraded to
640K, dos 3.3 (I think) and a 20MB hd, 1 5.25 floppy drive, and an
84-key keyboard. I could actually use 90% of the programs on the
machine, though some of them required a few gymnastics to make them
work.
Now, I've got a storage shed full of computers ranging from XT up
to Pentium 2 machines. 2 laptops on my desk (one with an hd that
needs an os reinstalled, and 1 with win2K on it) A desktop machine
running win98, a tower running linux, a mac mini maxed out with
10.4.6 on it, 1GB of ram, 80GB hd, 250GB external hd, and let's
see, about 75% of the programs are usable out of the box, and
roughly 80-85% can be made to work with some gymnastics.
So, you say nothing's changed. I beg to differ. I can do just as
much as I did before (actually more, because the computer does it
faster now)
Plus now I have the ability to make my computer do absolutely
nothing millions of times faster than it ever would have been
possible 20 years ago. Not to mention, I could copy my 20MB hd
onto this 80GB hd 4 thousand times, and I can even waste more space
due to cluster size on my hd than my original one even had to start
with. Not to mention all the wonderfully complex graphical
resolutions that exist now. 320X200 could fit on my 1024X768
screen a few times with room to spare, and I can do all of this
without the aid of any additional hardware, just what ships with my
little miniMac. Try doing that in 1986.
