2 Jan
2013
2 Jan
'13
1:10 p.m.
Which PC era?
cassette tapes?the floppy disk?CDs ?DVDs ?blu-ray disks?hard drives?a picture of a bunch
of clouds???
Dan.
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:03:16 -0800
From: cclist at sydex.com
To:
Subject: Re: NASA computers circa 1969
On 01/02/2013 12:17 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I just stumbled across a sort of show-and-tell of computers used by NASA
in the 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwpXEiTDVk
An interesting question came to mind. It seems that the popular icon
for old computing gear is tapes spinning and lights blinking.
So 50 years on from today, what will be the icon for the PC era?
--Chuck