Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 12:50pm.
The one thing certain, is that nobody will be able to predict where technology goes. One seemingly "small" discovery can change the entire landscape in short order.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 6:19am.
Yes - take an Intel 8080 (8-bit) and a 8086 (16-bit) and make one of the fastest CP/M (8-bit) machines. Anyone remember the FidoNet BBS? I got Fido to run on my Z-100 with that blazing fast 2400bps modem...
Submitted by Kutch128 on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 7:51am.
Ditto. I've sold IT stuff to the federal gov't since 1980 & still have an Andersen-Jacobsen 300 Baud Acoustic Coupler in my hands where you had to put your phone's handset in to communicate. On top of that, it was priced ~$800! I also sold the first "portable" computer to DOD in '84; it weighed 15 lbs, had a 5 1/4" floppy & the first 10MB hard drive. I flew to Denver to show it to the USAF Academy, but the X-ray machine in the airport erased the HDD. Unbelieveable!
Tech
The one thing certain, is that nobody will be able to predict where technology goes. One seemingly "small" discovery can change the entire landscape in short order.
All I got to say, is here's to the next 25 years!
Zenith 100
Yes - take an Intel 8080 (8-bit) and a 8086 (16-bit) and make one of the fastest CP/M (8-bit) machines. Anyone remember the FidoNet BBS? I got Fido to run on my Z-100 with that blazing fast 2400bps modem...
Ditto. I've sold IT stuff
Ditto. I've sold IT stuff to the federal gov't since 1980 & still have an Andersen-Jacobsen 300 Baud Acoustic Coupler in my hands where you had to put your phone's handset in to communicate. On top of that, it was priced ~$800! I also sold the first "portable" computer to DOD in '84; it weighed 15 lbs, had a 5 1/4" floppy & the first 10MB hard drive. I flew to Denver to show it to the USAF Academy, but the X-ray machine in the airport erased the HDD. Unbelieveable!