25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
12:23 p.m.
On 10/25/07, Ruth Bygrave rbygrave@ntlworld.com wrote:
Micromania (good jokey book about the early beginnings of home computing; brings back the full horrors of membrane keyboards, the original Adventure game, and the earliest user-hostile computers before Linux was even a gleam in Linus Torvald's eye)
That's a bit harsh! The user identification chart is still relevant.
The cost calculator doesn't take into account the way computers and storage get cheaper per unit speed / capacity over time, but that doesn't matter as users always want more.
Tim.