Posted on 04/15/2009 9:51:45 AM PDT by EveningStar
Looking back at the 20th century, it's clear that even the biggest and baddest gadget sensations will one day fall victim to technological evolution.
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I spent my teens running phone lines all over the house.
Then I spent my fourties tearing them off the house.
We have two land line phones left - the kitchen, and my office.
And I would get rid of those, but for the reasons you state. And that three generations of businesses are used to calling them.
the Z8080 processor
I think you're a bit confused. Intel made the 8080. The designer left, founded Zilog, and made the Z80. AFAIK, there was never a Z8080.
Followons to the Z80 included the Z180, Z280, Z380, eZ80, Z800 (which, IIRC, Hitachi knocked off as the 64180 and eventually got licensed back by Zilog as the Z180), the Z8000, and (don't know if it ever shipped) the Z80,000. Zilog also does a Z8 microcontroller.
Actually, real programmers used front panel switches.
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ps. I'll bet that some here thought that photo was shopped.
At least in the Texas National Guard.
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And vinyl sounds different from CDs.
The last movie I saw in a theater drove me batty with film grain.
Not sure which blur you’re referring to. Most I know of are being corrected.
There are flaws with every recording medium, visual or otherwise. Just a matter of whether the balance of flaws in one medium are preferable to the balance of flaws in another.
"You" may not "see" the difference but you do perceive it. It puts your mind into a different psychotronic state.
Same as fluorescent lights cast a different color tinge (and flicker) (and audible hum) that you may not be conscious to.
Wow. The only thing on that list I have are DVDs and since I got a blue ray player I’m betting that’s on its way out at some point.
Of course the thing I miss the most as far as extinct technology is the mimeograph. Schoolwork with a touch to huffing.
I recently bought a Seiko chronograph, since I need to time things, sometimes better than saying “one, two, three...”
My other Seiko is a school watch, so I wear that one at alumni events and at family gettogethers.
Of course Dad was a watchmaker so I am fascinated with fine mechanisms. Although not so fascinated that I won’t wear a Quartz timepiece.
:)
I will always keep a land line in the house.
If something major happens these days, cell service will fail from overload.
Have you seen Tim Burton’s “The Corpse Bride?” As you may know, it was “filmed” with Canon 1DmkII digital SLRs. (It was stop-action animation, of course.)
They did a preproduction screen test comparing a scene shot with these cameras to same scene shot with a standard motion picture film camera. Every viewer said, “Hey, put that other one back on!”
I have the same problem. My property is a black hole for technology and I don’t see the turning around any time soon.
I’ve never appreciated crappy cell phone reception anyway.
The fact that cell phone towers will die after a few hours of power outage is something the cell phone companies don’t talk about.
But if there's a clock wherever you go, why take a watch with you wherever you go? I do see the perceived need for a wristwatch. It's a comfort thing. People are free to do as they please (for now). I'm only saying that I have been watch-less for ten years and have not missed one. And my father-in-law is a Watchmaker.
You , too? It must be a TX "thang!"
Hmmmm...This is what I remember my Teacher telling me what it was, we had Zenith “micro-computers” and he told the class that they had a “Z8080” processor chip. (man, am I dating myself or what?). I found this below on http://hubpages.com/hub/A-Brief-History-of-the-Micro-Computer
The “Chips” That Started it All
Intel
In mid 1974 Intel, a transistor and memory chip manufacturer, came up with the first successful “computer on a chip” design called the 8080. It ran at two (2) megaHertz and performed computing functions via an eight bit Central Processing Unit (CPU). The 8080 had a forty pin design that allowed for a sixteen (16) bit bus.
This was the improved version of the 8008 which had been designed for Computer Terminal Corporation. Because the 8008 did not meet CTCs performance specifications the 8080 was developed, but by then CTC was using their own chip. Intel found a home for the 8080 in the Altair (see below).
MOS Technology
In 1975 MOS Technology developed a similar chip to the 8080 above. The designer was Chuck Peddle of Motorola and his idea was to design a chip that was compatible to the Motorola 6800, but considerably cheaper. Initially there was little public interest because it was so cheap (at $25 compared to Intel’s $179) that no one took it seriously. Fortunately both Intel and Motorola did take it seriously, dropped their prices to under $80, and in the process made the 6502 attractive.
This was the first chip used in the Apple and Commodore computers.
First Computer on a Chip
Intel C8080
Interesting story there....
When the towers worked—and people could get thru the overload— the phones had to be charged in cars.
Most motorcycles don’t have a clock. the deer lease sure doesn’t. Further, I know my watch is correct and don’t trust others. Finally, how many people lose their phone? Nobody but an idiot loses their watch.
I am sure there are people here who don’t “need” shoes too. Is this a comfort thing too?
Some people walk around without wearing glasses because they would rather bump into walls than admit they need them.
That’s cool... a lot of folks don’t wear one. As for me, I go to plenty of places where there are no visible clocks and even if there were, as some have pointed out, that doesn’t mean they tell you the correct time.
And my watch does other things to and better than these other devices. I can’t take my cell phone swimming. I can time something easily without pulling out another device, etc...
jw
Up your Obama?!?!
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