I was just over at osnews.com and I saw this: Asus Dreams up Modular PC of the Future
So I follow the lead and I find this: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/23/asus_concept_shelf_pc/ "Exclusive Asus has shelved plans to develop the PC of the future - literally. The Taiwanese vendor's Green PC concept computer, shown to Reg Hardware this week, is just that: a shelf. And some clever wireless connectivity and non-contact inductive power source." Very little difference from my own ideas and concepts - except for the non-contact inductive power supply and the wireless connectivity - I didn't think about wireless connectivity when I was thinking along these lines in 1995. I was thinking about security, and wireless didn't strike me as being all that secure. And I thought of a central power supply-come-UPS. I still think the separable units idea is axiomatic, if one wants to build a reliable PC. Separable-unit-as-function. Just think what competitive advantages accrue to New Zealand from being the last person off the starting blocks. Just think what competitive advantages accrue to New Zealand in stifling thought through business' bureaucratic stupidity. We've only got the world's largest moat to add to the costs of exporting anything, so why not send all our brightest off to our competitors because we're too stupid to employ them, while we're at it? </Rant Mode Off> Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
