My oldest hardware still in regular use is a trusty Amiga 1200 (bought around 1994), running some accounting program for my parents company, plus emailer and browser. Boots in less than 15 seconds;) And - gosh - You can just turn it off, no need for a system shutdown. Ah - those were the days...
For structural integrity: Concrete doesn't last, not even 100 years without proper maintenance. Rock lasts for millenia. And brick is very durable too.
> But then how many people would want a wall say 4 feet thick?
Well, i do. Best air conditioning possible, nice and cool in summer. Most turn-of-the-century houses in my city (Vienna) are built like that. Very thick exterior brick walls. Those are the best to live in. On the other hand the oldest conrete structures i know here are anti aircraft artillery towers still standing from WWII. mighty concrete fortesses built to resist bombardment. but only 60 years later they are crumbling and there are cracks half a meter wide. concrete just rots if not properly maintained.
One of the key uses for my dream-machine would be preparing and running presentations for talks. Plus programming, plus reading stuff (pdf, html). I feel somehow restricted by the PDAs out there. I have a Newton (still alive!) and a Palm III (deceased recently:( I want to be able to run the editor of my choice, the office suite of my choice, any browser etc. but without tedious converting to and from PDA specific formats (like Palm doc). And i want to be able to do real work while sitting in the train etc. i.e. have my projects in there. so here are the requirements: - lots of memory (> 1GB) - VGA output (for video beamer) - mouse and keyboard connectors (always handy) - USB (for printer etc.) - ethernet (for transferring stuff reasonably) - screen 320x240 schould be ok - virtual keyboard should be ok, small real keyboard would be better - expandability for bluetooth, wireless lan, GSM etc. - ok, and abviously sound, to play those mp3s
So basically the ideal PDA would be a stripped down notebook, without floppy or CD-rom, without keyboard and with smaller screen. And without superfluous 1.5 GHz heat source, but with reasonalble 200-300 MHz CPU. Battery capacity could be a problem though i guess.
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My oldest hardware still in regular use is a trusty Amiga 1200 (bought around 1994), running some accounting program for my parents company, plus emailer and browser. ;) And - gosh - You can just turn it off, no need for a system shutdown. Ah - those were the days ...
Boots in less than 15 seconds
For structural integrity:
Concrete doesn't last, not even 100 years without proper maintenance. Rock lasts for millenia. And brick is very durable too.
> But then how many people would want a wall say 4 feet thick?
Well, i do. Best air conditioning possible, nice and cool in summer. Most turn-of-the-century houses in my city (Vienna) are built like that. Very thick exterior brick walls. Those are the best to live in.
On the other hand the oldest conrete structures i know here are anti aircraft artillery towers still standing from WWII. mighty concrete fortesses built to resist bombardment. but only 60 years later they are crumbling and there are cracks half a meter wide. concrete just rots if not properly maintained.
One of the key uses for my dream-machine would be preparing and running presentations for talks. Plus programming, plus reading stuff (pdf, html). :( I want to be able to run the editor of my choice, the office suite of my choice, any browser etc. but without tedious converting to and from PDA specific formats (like Palm doc). And i want to be able to do real work while sitting in the train etc. i.e. have my projects in there.
I feel somehow restricted by the PDAs out there. I have a Newton (still alive!) and a Palm III (deceased recently
so here are the requirements:
- lots of memory (> 1GB)
- VGA output (for video beamer)
- mouse and keyboard connectors (always handy)
- USB (for printer etc.)
- ethernet (for transferring stuff reasonably)
- screen 320x240 schould be ok
- virtual keyboard should be ok, small real keyboard would be better
- expandability for bluetooth, wireless lan, GSM etc.
- ok, and abviously sound, to play those mp3s
So basically the ideal PDA would be a stripped down notebook, without floppy or CD-rom, without keyboard and with smaller screen. And without superfluous 1.5 GHz heat source, but with reasonalble 200-300 MHz CPU.
Battery capacity could be a problem though i guess.
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