I worked for a guy who correctly envisioned the whole desktop computer thing in '72-'73. We were using a time-sharing vendor on IBM selectrics and got a SHARP 16 digit electronic calculator. It was programable and smaller than a typewriter. It impressed the hell out of my boss who had done regressions on one of the old mechanical calculators...those things with a series of registers across the top that moved and went ker-chunk, Ker-chunk, Ker-Chunk as they did multiplications.
I remember him saying, "One day we're gonna have computers that fit on our desk...well maybe on our desks with a big cable to a box on the floor. And they're gonna do everything we can do now time-sharing or a mainframe." A couple of years later, I subscribed to the 1st volume a new magazine for computer hobbyists that was promoting this new computer you could build/have at home. There was one from Radio Shack and I think Apple too. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:40:38 +0100, Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At work, some of my predecessors actually made the demografic projections > using a computer, using a printer as a the monitor. Computers like this was > used in DK in the late seventies and early eighties. It wasn't rally a home > computer - more like a terminal connected to a mainframe at a central > data-facility. > > Until 1990 I too made the projections using a terminal, but now with a > monitor screen. Since then we have udsed what we now know as a PC. I wonder > what the next version may look like - a cell phone perhaps - or a wrist > watch - or pehaps a fluid in a bottle ??? > > By the way. My first PC was 60 MB harddrive at a retail price of 6000 USD! > And it's really not that long time ago :-) > This money would buy me 10 or 20 PC's with 80 GB harddrives and 3 GH > processors. > > Jens Bladt > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 16. november 2004 17:23 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Home Computer Prediction From 1954 > > > > > This may produce a few grins: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/54-computer.jpg > > Shel > >
