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Updating the Computer, Circa 1969
Coudal points out a "Swell article from UK Magazine 'Design' from 1969," excerpting "Designing a computer is a continuous process in which technological breakthroughs must be matched by new hardware, and new hardware by new software, without invalidating the systems already in use."
I read about that 37 years ago on Digg.
If you put your ear against it you can hear the hampsters running!
The girl in the photo on the first page is H-A-W-T HOT!
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
Bah.... I much rather have a portable computer...
1969 called and they want their article back
... these people never heard about vista ;)
Yeah, 1969 was about the last time attractive women in skirts were seen anywhere near a data center... :)
...a mere TEN YEARS LATER, one could purchase a TRS-80 at Radio Shack, featuring 4K of RAM and using a casette tape recorder for storage, for only a thousand bucks or so.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
However, the Colt 1911 model still works fine - not really a computer, unless it involves questions where the answer is BANG!
Q: Why don't the British make computers anymore? A: Because they couldn't find a way to make them leak oil.
-- Mace only makes me hornier.
I can still program in PLAN (its assembler), and CES-Basic. And FORTRAN.
No, but it'll probaby run NetBSD.
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