25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
6:47 a.m.
Zitat von Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>:
they're just beige boxes that crunch numbers. They
don't even have
ports any more that are really useful to me (unlike serial / parallel /
SCSI etc. on ones of the 80s and 90s) where I can easily twiddle bits
and "do stuff" if I want.
IMHO, that's the real point. You can't attach any "old" stuff to them
anymore, so we all have our '486 in the garage to copy/test
floppies/tapes/drives.
Looking at PCs, they will have in few year many terrabytes of
diskspace to boot win 10/11, but effectively, all the data is in the
cloud. So if you flip the switch, you boot something which interprets
the data you're getting from the internet and send it back, while your
data is located in a big data center somewhere else.
Didn't we call them terminals back then?
;-)