If you are going to make up a story it should at least fit into reality.
graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" -----------------------------------
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
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
