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IBM inventor: PC is dead
CBS News ^
| August 12, 2011
| Mark Dean
Posted on 08/12/2011 3:39:08 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:39:09 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Darn, I was hoping they meant Political Correctness was dead.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:40:34 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I hope this isn’t true. Tablets and smartphones are great, but PC’s are still better for certain things.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:43:34 PM PDT
by
barstoolblues
(Notes from the Hobbitt Hole. From Hezbollah Hobbitt)
To: george76
No it not. Same way during the 90s these people told us the telephone and snail mail was dead. Technological progress is evolutionary, not revolutionary since you will always have a certain % of the people who prefer the old way of doing things.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:43:41 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
To: dfwgator
That’s odd. My PC is working just fine.
To: george76
They called it the 5150?
That’s crazy!
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:44:01 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 932. The mob is decisive when the law is not.)
To: george76
Tell that to hard-core gamers and simmers.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:44:27 PM PDT
by
Signalman
To: dfwgator
That will never happen as long as there are libtards.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:44:45 PM PDT
by
reg45
To: george76
Mac lovers will rejoice.
Too bad it’s not the other kind of PC!
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:45:35 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: george76
That’s what they said about Hitler in 1945, and look he’s been hiding in Argentina the whole time!
To: Revolting cat!
They said that about Elvis, too.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:48:52 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: george76
I seriously doubt the PC is dead. People who use their computers hours per day probably will not want to use tablets and other formats with small screens and small keyboards. It will become a smaller portion of computer sales, but many will not want to use the small, confining, midget computers no matter how powerful they become.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:49:23 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: george76
When an expert predicts the future, bet against it.
They know what they know, but they do not know what they do not know. I it is what they do not know that keeps their predictions from coming true.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:50:00 PM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(California does not have a money problem, it has a spending problem.)
To: george76
Apple surged past Exxon in value the other day, for a moment anyhow.
The PC is dying for sure, but not dead yet. I am posting from an overheating lap top right here.
Meanwhile, the IPAD does at least as much as the PC, is more portable, and does not overheat. No viruses as yet either.
PC is gonna be dead soon, just not quite this minute.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:52:25 PM PDT
by
Radix
("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
To: george76
"The PC is dead."Then what the heck am I posting on?
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:56:39 PM PDT
by
NoGrayZone
("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded." Andrew Klavan of PJTV)
To: george76
They can make the computer as small as they want. Just don’t take away my full-sized keyboard with real buttons.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:58:34 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
(2012 can't come soon enough.)
To: george76
IBM killed the PC with their first so called PC. Prior to their entry, PCs had enough IRQs to handle anything. IBM created a dumbed down standard to ensure mainframes were kept safe. We’ve been paying the price ever since.
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posted on
08/12/2011 3:59:38 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: george76
It might be dead sales wise, but there will be us holdouts. Yeah, all these other gizmos are portable and handy and such, but they are useless to me. I’ll still have a powerful desktop and a landline phone for awhile yet. Yes, I have a smartphone, and a tablet. They aren’t my first choice at home
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posted on
08/12/2011 4:01:37 PM PDT
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: null and void
They called it the 5150?
I'm listening to Van Hagar 5150... LOL!
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posted on
08/12/2011 4:03:34 PM PDT
by
nhwingut
(Palin '12... Accept No Other)
To: george76
Hard to believe this was cutting edge stuff when I learned to repair in the Navy back in the 80’s
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posted on
08/12/2011 4:03:55 PM PDT
by
mylife
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