Technology is Wonderful. . . .
when it works.
The last 2 days have been a royal pain at worek as the internet service provider has been having all kinds of technical problems on their side. & with this being the last week of classes & finals next week, it has definitely left a few unhappy.
I say this because it seems like only 25 years ago I was selling Commodore VIC 20s with 2k RAM. When the 64 came out, WOW! I ran a section on a community BB with my VIC 20, a cassette tape drive for storing programs & a phone modem that plugged into the phone after you dialed the number. The BB was run by a 64 with 2 floppy disk drives.
OK, not quite the "stone knives and bear skins" that Spock attempted to make a "mnemonic memory circuit" with in The City on the Edge of Forever, but not as bad as the punch cards we had to use when I was in college either.
I say this because it seems like only 25 years ago I was selling Commodore VIC 20s with 2k RAM. When the 64 came out, WOW! I ran a section on a community BB with my VIC 20, a cassette tape drive for storing programs & a phone modem that plugged into the phone after you dialed the number. The BB was run by a 64 with 2 floppy disk drives.
OK, not quite the "stone knives and bear skins" that Spock attempted to make a "mnemonic memory circuit" with in The City on the Edge of Forever, but not as bad as the punch cards we had to use when I was in college either.
posted by Al @ 2:11 PM
3 Comments:
At 7/12/10 3:02 PM ,
Teresa said...
Technology can be a pain when it doesn't work properly, as you have noticed. Sorry to hear of your technological troubles. Hopefully technology will improve further and these types of hang-ups will be prevented in the future.
Great scene!
At 7/12/10 3:44 PM ,
Patrick Button said...
Not to mention the Vulcan death grip.
At 7/12/10 7:49 PM ,
Al said...
Patrick : OK I won't. :)
Teresa: Not so much mine as the students. As for the future, remember, Murphy was an optimist.
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