7 Jun
2024
7 Jun
'24
4:47 p.m.
On 06/07/2024 9:18 AM CDT Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
We can at least all agree that the Ford Mustang was not a "personal
computer", nor "Personal Computer", although almost any Personal Computer
could fit in the back seat or the trunk, but probably not in the glove
compartment. A mini-computer, disunirregardless of whether it was
"Personal", would require the convertible model, with the top down.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
Hmmm, if you get into that shiny new 1965 'stang, start it (that's the hard part.
It IS a Ford.), put it in D and press the accelerator, it will solve a whole slew of
differential equations concerning mass, engine power and RPM, gravity, friction, wind
resistance, etc for the speed that solves them all simultaneously and give an answer on a
"solution gauge" (aka speedometer.) So, a computer. And since automobiles are
a very personal thing, most definitely a "personal computer." :-)
Will
Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for children to be
always and forever explaining things to them,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince