Posted on 05/30/2017 5:00:59 AM PDT by sodpoodle
My Dad, who worked for Burroughs at the time, had given us a Commodore and Texas Instruments.
He extolled how we need learn how to use these to become more productive and “Blah, blah, blah” was all I heard and he too exclaimed they would be in every home.
“Pffft!!! Eeeeh Yeah, right!!!”
5 years later I meet Woz and Jobs, TJ Rogers, Lowenstern, Oshman, Moore, Corrigan, McNealy, and more.
WTF did I know???
Somehow, when we envisioned ‘videophone’ back in the 1960s it seemed a lot more exciting that how it has turned out to be:
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-the-videophone-that-almost-was-1214969187
Nancy Pelosi. Rosa DeLauro. Maxine Waters.
Today, I don't know anyone who does ironing like our mothers used to do, even with a mangler. But an interesting artifact.
Put it in the Rolodex
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Now see here, you whippersnappers, these sayings have been in use since Hector was a pup, by cracky!
Turns out that the astronauts were also using the HP 41C and made their own program. A couple of their HPs are in Museums.
I think one is at Brown...which is where my granddaughter will start her graduate studies in the fall.
As it so happens, there is one at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, CA....
I don’t remember hearing that one until the late 1980s or early 1990s.
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