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Dec 23 3:59 PM EST

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To: Larry Holmes who wrote (890)	1/19/1997 2:18:00 AM
From: CVJ	of 213177

You got it right re new vistas to discover/invent. When was the last time anyone bought a 78 vinyl for their hand-crank RCA Victrola? I remember playing them when I was a kid in the late 40's, early 50's. You don't have to go back that far either. Any engineers still using slide rules or even HP calculator? How about 8-Track tapes? BETAMAX? The point is that everything changes and eventually becomes eligible for a spot in a museum when something better comes along. Desktop PC's will soon be quaint relics of the 20th century. Why not a portable device the size of a current cell phone that is a voice-controlled PC, HDTV, phone etc? I would be willing to bet that something akin to that is probably being thought about in some advanced lab or gov't Black project somewhere. Apple was there for the PC revolution and they have it within their grasp to lead the way to the next whatever it is. I hope they are up to the job. Having the best thing or the fastest or coolest thing doesn't get you much more than a footnote in the history book if you can't sell it. (Betamax by Sony, GUI by Xerox PARC, etc). Will our Apple be a Golden Delicious or a sour Crabapple?

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