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To: Eric who wrote (57752)	2/20/2002 7:22:58 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Japan has been a basket case for 10 years and we have survived. If it is a basket case for ten more how will that have a big effect on our economy? We've learned to live with it. Now, if you are concerned about another 10 years geopolitically, you may have something.

To: Eric who wrote (57752)	2/21/2002 9:37:55 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Hi Eric, interesting you bring up PDP-11... I might still have a few bits and bobs in the basement in various stages of rewired dismemberment... that is if my wife hasn't binned the last of 'em already. Me and the insides of computers go way way back to the days of ferrite cores. Remember those 8-bit IC memories? How amazing they were? And today we can get a few gig (plus ECC) in a SIP. A lot has happened in 25 years. Anyone buying today's tech on payback timeframes measured in decades is pushing steep odds. Japan? Worries me a lot. In the present because of the effect on the global economy. But moreso as a portal to our future. They're about 10 years ahead of us demographically speaking, depending on how you measure. And I'd hate to think our next 10 years will parallel their last ten. Yeuch! John.