Re: Home Computer Prediction From 1954

[John Coyle]

Jens, that's nothing! The first PC I used was a Tandy Model III, with 4KB of 
memory and a tape drive for storage.  The first one I bought for a company 
was an HP 86A, using a 64KB 51/4 inch external disk as persistent storage, 
and a green screen monitor.  Memory was a whole 128k, in plug-in modules. 
Later expanded that with an external 4MB hard disk, which plugged in to an 
external slot.  All coupled to a daisy-wheel printer for high quality but 
b---y noisy output at about 1 page per 1.5 minutes!

These young'uns don't know they're born!  (Not you, Jens!)
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: Home Computer Prediction From 1954


At work, some of my predecessors actually made the demografic projections
using a computer, using a printer as a the monitor. Computers like this 
was
used in DK in the late seventies and early eighties. It wasn't rally a 
home
computer - more like a terminal connected to a mainframe at a central
data-facility.

Until 1990 I too made the projections using a terminal, but now with a
monitor screen. Since then we have udsed what we now know as a PC. I 
wonder
what the next version may look like - a cell phone perhaps - or a wrist
watch - or pehaps a fluid in a bottle ???

By the way. My first PC was 60 MB harddrive at a retail price of 6000 USD!
And it's really not that long time ago  :-)
This money would buy me 10 or 20 PC's with 80 GB harddrives and 3 GH
processors.
Jens Bladt
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http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
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Fra: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendt: 16. november 2004 17:23
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Emne: Home Computer Prediction From 1954
This may produce a few grins:
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/54-computer.jpg
Shel