Deconstructing the PC Revolution

coondoggie writes to mention that room-sized computers and other recollections were shared over the weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival in Silicon Valley. "About 200 people, many of them of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety, attended the event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif."

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Re:I wonder if Ken Olsen was there

[ackthpt]

If they'd just work with the modders, I think the original Xbox would have come pretty close.....I'm actually considering modding an old one for this purpose.

What Ken was refering to was these computers which would run every aspect of the home, popular in sci-fi in the 40s and 50s. I think there was a Ma and Pa Kettle film to show how luddites would have conflict with the Home of Tomorrow.

Honestly, to run most of what you need in your house, you could probably get by with an old Sun Sparcstation running Linux.