From: �puma@hannover.sgh-net.de
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: <38e278c3.306801@news.hannover.sgh-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca
Maybe you might want to download and read the pdf file -
just like me ?
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:06:58 -0500, Ted Edwards
<Ted_E@bc.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>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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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-28 0:00 Article: The shift away from user directed projects Myles Wakeham
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Harlan Grove
2000-03-30 0:00 ` �puma
2000-03-29 0:00 ` �puma
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Ted Edwards
2000-03-29 0:00 ` �puma [this message]
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
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