<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Lubkin</b> <<a href="mailto:extropy@unreasonable.com">extropy@unreasonable.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dirk wrote:<br><br>>Now you've gone and spoiled it!<br>>Anyway, IMO the giveaway was the dot matrix printer which while not<br>>2004 was around . 1984, some 30yrs after the alleged photo was taken.<br><br>For comparison, here's an actual photo of a computer my grandfather
<br>invented around that time, which uses an IBM typewriter. I posted the<br>specs in the "Poxy Old Computers" thread of two years ago.</blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>That's actually pretty neat - a bit like the old Cray 1.<br>
Did he think at the time that 50yrs later his grandson would have more computing power in his wristwatch than in that computer?<br>
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Dirk<br>
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