14 Oct
2002
14 Oct
'02
1:51 p.m.
At 12:22 PM 10/14/2002 -0500, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
On Friday, October 11, 2002, John Foust wrote:
The text compares the power of ENIAC to the power of a modern PC.
One friend said the woman looks like Julia Roberts. I think the
person with the PC and the woman are supposed to be contemporary.
Why she's looking at the roof of the ENIAC house is beyond me.
Why they decided to use a lame size analogy like that, and then
illustrate it literally is also beyond my ken. Would it be
unreasonable for a kid to think that old computers were also tall?
The square footage of ENIAC mutates into comparisons with square
footage of a typical house, which mutates into house volume. Huh?
No response from Topco, though.
You're right about the floppy, of course. They could've used a
"fun factoid" like explaining why all floppies have been called
floppy because they're talking about the disk not the case.
- John
I've created a web page to publicize and
discuss the horrible
misinterpretation ... http://www.threedee.com/jcm/cereal/
Outside of the 'ENIAC building', there is a guy using a PC-like machine.
Those, of course, did not exist in 1945.