From: Ted Edwards <Ted_E@bc.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects
Date: 2000/03/29
Date: 2000-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38e2abb2.13703965@news.hannover.sgh-net.de
When making predictions of the future of computing, especially on a time
frame greater than a few months, it is wise to consider a quote
appearing in the sig of a young fellow learning to weld.
"
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future by the year 2000 may have only
1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons
"
-- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Ted
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2000-03-28 0:00 Article: The shift away from user directed projects Myles Wakeham
2000-03-29 0:00 ` �puma
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Ted Edwards [this message]
2000-03-29 0:00 ` �puma
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Charles E. Bortle, Jr.
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Lou Zher
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Charles E. Bortle, Jr.
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Harlan Grove
2000-03-30 0:00 ` �puma
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