[extropy-chat] Yesterday's home computer

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/16/06, David Lubkin <extropy at unreasonable.com> wrote:
>
> Dirk wrote:
>
> >Now you've gone and spoiled it!
> >Anyway, IMO the giveaway was the dot matrix printer which while not
> >2004 was around . 1984, some 30yrs after  the alleged photo was taken.
>
> For comparison, here's an actual photo of a computer my grandfather
> invented around that time, which uses an IBM typewriter. I posted the
> specs in the "Poxy Old Computers" thread of two years ago.


That's actually pretty neat - a bit like the old Cray 1.
Did he think at the time that 50yrs later his grandson would have more
computing power in his wristwatch than in that computer?

Dirk
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