A day that got away from me, doing some ham-related stuff. So, as usual, some things that I thought were worth sharing.
First, for my fellow old timers that had computers in the '70s and '80s, a
friend I've known since the early '90s dropped me an email with this picture and
a link to Quora
where it was posted.
His remark was something like "This is how much good computers used to cost." Back around '89, I had a computer with an 80386 processor like that one, the 80387 math coprocessor, and VGA, I think it had a 30 MB hard drive, and I just don't remember it all well enough to do more comparisons to this one. Mine cost about $600 IIRC.
But when I see a price like that from 1989 my instinct is to see what that would cost in today's inflated currency, so off to "USinflationcalculator.com." The phrase "pucker factor" comes to mind.
And finally one that's among the most reasonable comments I've seen on
Artificial Intelligence. I don't remember where I got it but it didn't look
like this. It was tilted so that woman's picture, which looks like it was
cropped at an angle was really the bottom edge. I edited it to make it look
more normal.
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Yep, things are upside-down nowadays, and the AI scene is something else.
ReplyDeleteThe Dell Laptop I'm typing on has a 256Mb SSD, an i5 running at 2.30 GHz, 8GB of memory, and 64-bit Win10. It can easily run circles around that 1998 computer.
Technology marches on.
And, there IS a lot of automation in household appliances nowadays, but if we humans are smart we will ignore them. I don't trust IoT nor what it can control.