23 Jan
2011
23 Jan
'11
8:47 a.m.
On 23 Jan 2011 at 11:35, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 1/23/11 11:25 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
This was in 1975 and it was a (female) co-worker who wanted to see my
computer. Her response was withering: "That's not a computer!
That's a toy!".
I don't think I've ever recovered from that.
--Chuck
I knew some people who refused to call a MITS
8800 a "computer"...
I've had one guy look me dead in the eye and tell me that my
PDP-11/70 couldn't possibly be a computer, and that I had no idea of
what I was talking about. Where's the mouse? Where's the "Start"
button? Circa 1974, huh? No, I'm clearly nuts, computers only came
around in the 1990s, "when modems were invented so we could surf the
Internet".