[PhilDragoo]

I heard the sound of a phone modem the other day, can't remember where.

My grandfather took me up to an entire floor of a building in Columbus, Ohio to a sea of punched card machines fluttering down in blurring stacks like the rain in Africa and the '55 Chevy Nomad was the fascinating development to me.

Later the Commodore 64 with the funny cassette pasting white letters on a black screen, a Sony Trinitron for a monitor.

Credit might be given George Orwell/Eric Blair for the telescreen, but as it was strictly government--IT FAILED.

fubo, fubare, fubavi, fubatus

[potlatch]

I knew a woman who worked at NASA in the 1960’s and she said the computer there filled a large room. I looked it up and she was right.

http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Computing.html

When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration came into existence in 1958, the stereotypical computer was the “UNIVAC,” a collection of spinning tape drives, noisy printers, and featureless boxes, filling a house-sized room.