On 20/9/21 9:48 am, Jan Whitaker wrote: > What a great story, Tony. Personally, being in education, I could see > that this personal computer revolution was going to change my field > immensely, so I too bought a TRS-80 so I could learn about computing > from the ground up. My little heart still goes pitty-pat when I remember > the first blinking lights and realising if I bought a printer I could > stop retyping everything. I even started a small business maintaining > mailing lists and printing labels for other small businesses. Well, only > 1 actually - an architecture association in Phoenix. Investing in > computers back then was too much for small offices. I gave my gear away > to a tech friend when I left the US. > > But to think how important that investment was for your family and what > they have contributed since is really a super story. Makes me wonder > what today's young people will dabble in for their own futures. Remember > how gaming became a thing last decade and how huge that has grown! Next: > space? ubiquitous virtual reality? Musk's idea of brain transfer? (that > one scares me - read the Dean Koontz series with Jane Hawk - I'm nearly > finished with that horror show - shudder)
Check out David Brin's 'Kil'n People', all about clay dittos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People http://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=59 > On 19/09/2021 6:58 pm, Antony Barry wrote: >> It certainly changed their lives. > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
