23 Apr
2004
23 Apr
'04
9:15 a.m.
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
Indeed. Sigh. Another case of computer ideas coming full circle and
being passed off as "new". I must admit that I'd even forgotten that this
is how it used to be <ashamed blush>.
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At 19:57 -0500
4/22/04, Sellam wrote:
The computer is now just
hardware, and soon enough, with cool technology like keychain harddrives
or what not, you'll bring in your own OS and software tools and modify the
hardware to your purposes, leaving it as it was for the next user.
EXACTLY the way that it was ~25 years ago,
when machines had FLOPPY drives,
but NO hard drives.