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Politics : BuSab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (11253)	12/31/2011 12:43:47 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23934

The Yale Computer Center is right across the street from the Peabody Museum, so on breaks I could go over and look at dinosaur bones. On the plane one time I chatted with a fellow who said he was trying to develop a computerized organ and if he was successful he'd be a rich man. Look at where we are now, and you have to believe he was. Computers were just coming on line when I was in college. The university had a 1620 and we were all duly amazed at how fast the lines poured off the printer. It was mesmerizing. The forestry school at the time had calculators that must have been antiques even then. They had 100 keys and a carriage that you had to move over by hand to multiply the next digit. In a way, I really appreciate the fact that I used and maintained telephone lines that you had to crank to call somebody, and I saw the first generation of mainframes. I even had a portable computer, a Kaypro, which weighed about 20 pounds and had 64K of memory and two floppy disk drives that always got out of alignment. How far we have come. Now at a breakfast with our son's friends we had four youngsters--all four spent most of the breakfast with their nose in an iPhone, but they did not appreciate that they had power in their hands the like of which wars would have been fought over in another time.