Posted on 08/12/2011 3:39:08 PM PDT by george76
In our increasingly smartphone-and-tablet computing-centric world, one of the computer engineers who helped design IBM's first personal computer, has made it official: The PC is dead.
Thirty years ago, Mark Dean was part of the original team that helped usher in a personal computing revolution when Big Blue announced its PC. On the anniversary of that seminal announcement, Dean said it is time to move beyond the PC. (see: Today is the IBM Model 5150's 30th birthday)
"My primary computer now is a tablet. When I helped design the PC, I didn't think I'd live long enough to witness its decline," Dean, nowadays the chief technology officer for IBM Middle East and Africa, wrote on a company blog. "But, while PCs will continue to be much-used devices, they're no longer at the leading edge of computing. They're going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I'm one of them! I love my 21" screen and ergo-wave keyboard! I hate having to use a laptop; I have trouble with the small screen, and my hands are all scrunched together on the keyboard!
Hubby and I would love to find a SmartPhone that has large text, so that when the phone rings, we can see who is calling without having to put on our dang glasses!! They’ve gotten the clock down pat; we can see THAT without glasses, but the text showing phone calls is TINY!
Yes, but...
Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled.
...hence my comment!
And they do every day. Exxon shuts down for a month you’ll not have groceries on the shelf. Apple shuts down for a month and no one but a few poofters notices
Apparently IBM didn’t consult California on their model number conventions. Not gonna lose any sleep over it.
Interesting.
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P.S. I ain’t no poofter.
Just say’n...
What part of BP and Shell do you not understand?
I understand quite well that they can’t come close to supplying the market. Shutting the refineries at Baton Rouge, and Baytown would bring this country to a very quick halt
It takes a lot more than a battery to operate that ipad. Without basic energy nothing works. Not even with your own personal I-generator
I’d not heard that before. I guess we need to come up with an all encompassing domestic energy program to ensure that such disruptions have minimal impact.
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