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To: GraceZ who wrote (859)	1/21/2001 5:08:22 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Hi Grace A. Zaccardi; Re: "BTW If you had told me back in 1984 that I would have owned 12 printers, 15 computers, two fax machines, three copiers, twenty modems, three cell phones, four scanners, a digital camera, syquest, 7 Jaz writers, 12 Zip writers, five CD writers, four digitizer tablets, two 21" monitors, four 17" monitors, ten network cards, a DSL router, two hubs, DSL modem, cable modem and a Palm VII before the year 2000, I would have looked at you as if you were nuts." And the difference twixt 1984 and 2001, as far as the sanity of owning all that hardware? Or is this more along the lines of serial ownership... (G) There is a very important difference between laser printers and routers. Laser printers are involved with the manipulation of physical objects, paper and ink, and not so involved with the manipulation of mere electronic signals. Consequently laser printers, like automobiles, simply cannot scale down in price the same way that switches and routers (or even hard disk drives) can. Even pocket calculators have to include a human usable keyboard (at least so far, they do), but if you open up the box of a router you will discover an amazingly small number of mechanical parts. A better example than printers would be graphics cards, which, like routers, manipulate only electronic signals. (Display devices are different, they have to have a human readable interface, so they don't scale the same way that graphics cards do.) Essentially none of the companies that specialized in $1000 graphics cards in 1988 are still around, and that was only 13 years ago. -- Carl

To: GraceZ who wrote (859)	1/21/2001 11:37:05 PM
From: JayPC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

BTW If you had told me back in 1984 that I would have owned 12 printers, 15 computers, two fax machines, three copiers, twenty modems, three cell phones, four scanners, a digital camera, syquest, 7 Jaz writers, 12 Zip writers, five CD writers, four digitizer tablets, two 21" monitors, four 17" monitors, ten network cards, a DSL router, two hubs, DSL modem, cable modem and a Palm VII before the year 2000, I would have looked at you as if you were nuts. When technology reaches a saturation point in your office, your car, your home, where do you think its going to go next? Regards Jay