23 Jan
2011
23 Jan
'11
8:35 a.m.
On 1/23/11 11:25 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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".
I very nearly experienced spontaneous combustion.
I'm reminded of a T-shirt that I had in the mid-1990s. It said "NO,
the Internet is NOT cool! Go away!"
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL