Amazingly Accurate Tech Predictions
Not really RV related but I just had to post this somewhere.. :@ I just watched an old TV show called "Beachcombers". Since was a Canadian show many may not have heard of it? This particular epis...
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I remember my dad's first computer, a TSR 80 from Radio shack, 4 K of memory, less than used to write this message. It had a cassette tape to store the data, and no internal storage. Later he upgraded to 16 K of memory in 1980 or so. By 1982 he bought a 64K Morrow Designs computer with a 300 baud modem, with the 600 and new 1200 baud speeds.
Remember that now phones are limited to only 56,000 while DSL is about 10 times faster. "War Games" - he used a telephone and put the receiver on top of the modem, then it used the phone speakers to transfer the data at 150 - 300 bits per second.
One of my high school teachers had a "Portable" computer with a 4" vacuum tube screen. It would fit under a airplane seat, but barely! My guess is that 1982 model would cost about $4,000 new.
Fred.
Remember that now phones are limited to only 56,000 while DSL is about 10 times faster. "War Games" - he used a telephone and put the receiver on top of the modem, then it used the phone speakers to transfer the data at 150 - 300 bits per second.
One of my high school teachers had a "Portable" computer with a 4" vacuum tube screen. It would fit under a airplane seat, but barely! My guess is that 1982 model would cost about $4,000 new.
Fred.
