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06-07-2006, 10:21 AM
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Making The Most Of The Micro
I was watching an episode of a BBC programme called Making The Most Of The Micro (which originally aired in the early to mid 80's) the other day that I had downloaded and I was facinated to see what thier vision of the future was. At one point they talked about storage and I had a bit of a chuckle about how they said that you would never require a storage capacity of 100 Gigabytes for a home computer, but there may be applications in the Military and Government!
My question is what is the most misguided / funny vision of the future of computing that you ever heard? Preferably ones that have already panned out to be very wide of the mark. |
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"There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates" - Chuck Peddle, father of the 6502 and the Commodore PET
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06-07-2006, 10:24 AM
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the classic one is 'you'll never need more than 640k ram' from uncle bill himself, but, apparently, he never actually said it..
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1484,00.html |
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29-07-2006, 12:14 PM
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bump, lol.
Computers roughly double in processing power every year. Without the increase in ability of other components then the increase in speed would slow hidiously. I saw a news byte on bbc showing that the worlds fastest supercomputer had been topped. managed to get a 200 tera flop cpu or some such. |
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