NASA computers circa 1969

On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:29:06 -0800 (PST) Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: I'd say floppy disks were a thing of the eighties. Things like Commodore 64 and small computers around that time frame, etc. Iconic of the PC-System (that is, an IBM PC kind of computer) would be a CD, when looking at removable storage media. Tape reels are fun to look at, it looks cool when they're accessed, especially when they're accessing chunks of data at a time, the reels spin in this jerky manner. You usually don't see CDs spinning inside the drives, but they look nice as it is. The prism effect of them makes it pretty Iconic even without seeing them spinning. I would imagine, that flashy gaming equipment would be pretty memorable in fifty years or so. People making fun how people "back then" would decorate and casemod their computers to make them better looking. Same thing with things like Logitech G11, etc. Probably the era after that would be defined by smartphones and tablet computers. -- echo "cbyrzba at cbyrzba.bet" | tr '[a-z]' '[n-za-m]'