HAR! You'se guys are all wimps, and have fallen victim to planned obsolescence. I still use a scribe to record my impotant data, which is then sent to a stone carver and chisled into granite tablets for archival backup. The tablets are then stored in subterranean caverns.
http://www.scribeyourdata.com Shel > [Original Message] > From: John Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jens, that's nothing! The first PC I used was a Tandy Model III, with 4KB of > memory and a tape drive for storage. The first one I bought for a company > was an HP 86A, using a 64KB 51/4 inch external disk as persistent storage, > and a green screen monitor. Memory was a whole 128k, in plug-in modules. > Later expanded that with an external 4MB hard disk, which plugged in to an > external slot. All coupled to a daisy-wheel printer for high quality but > b---y noisy output at about 1 page per 1.5 minutes! > > These young'uns don't know they're born! (Not you, Jens!) > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:40 AM > Subject: RE: Home Computer Prediction From 1954 > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
