. . actually, that it is a wee bit longer . .. I'm just speaking to the PC and YOU!! It is now 25 years on, since it was let loose on us/we etc . .

What are your Pros and Cons?

Cons..... MS is still trying to control the world by controlling access and your money......

Pros...... better $ buying power per technology advances for the consumer market.......

Grazie, once again you've confused the hell out of me???

Is it your Silver Wedding?

If it is then congratulations. (You don't look old enough to be married) :~)

Alan

Even though Grazie might seem to be married to his PC I don't think that's what he's talking about.

The Good: Led to the world getting smaller.
The Bad: Led to the world getting smaller.

Bob.

>A Shameless Celebration Post.

1981 - - 25 Years on - hey??

Pros: Global Communication ( yeah, I know this came much later, but .. )

Cons: Bad news for an obsessive/compulsive character (moi?)
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Grazie, you do have a way of presenting things in an ambiguois, confusing manner.
Made perfect sense in your mind when you thought it.
A bit too terse, though, for a lot of your readers.

I think that date would be the IBM PC which came after the Apple and a few others, but could be argued as the beginning of the PC as the tool we know.

Pro: We wouldn't be having any of this conversation. Probably most of us found Vegas through some intenet way. And, of course, all the layered evolution of toolage that gave us Vegas among many other things.

Cons: Many of us spend too much time in this virtual world and would be better of with a larger percentage of that time spent out in the real world.
Trivial test: Are you fatter than you would have been if the PC was never invented? How many tasks are unfinished that probably would be done if the PC hadn't found a way to suck up your excess time.

Has it been 25 years already? Where did the time go?

In 1981 I had an Apple ][+ computer with 64KB of memory and a Zilog Z80 card that ran CP/M. (paid $3,200 for the Apple BTW) Because DOS was ripped off from CP/M, I already knew DOS when the IBM PC hit the market and that’s what landed me a job at IBM as a “PC Guru”. I knew more about how to use the PC than they did. ;-)

Pros: Landed me the job of a lifetime and found my wife (we met at IBM). Increased creative possibilities both musically and artistically. I don’t need to leave the house to shop.

Cons: I don’t get out much anymore. :(

> Trivial test: Are you fatter than you would have been if the PC was never invented?

I thought about this and concluded that if I wasn’t sitting in front of my PC I’d be sitting in front of the TV. So it has no effect and I’d rather be sitting in front of my PC doing something creative than passively watching TV. A body at rest, tends to stay at rest. ;-)

~jr

Does Grazie's "Us" mean "us" as in a couple or "US" as in "USA"?

Congats Grazie anyway.

We may never find out.

Grazie's stopped talking (that's a larf) or maybe he and his missus are still celebrating their Silver Wedding.

. .. seeesshhh .. this is hard work ..



I am talking about THE WHOLE Planet!

We got Ken Cal drinking in Irish Pubs . .

We got John M calculating Bit-rates . .

We got Bob-ula testing hardware . .

We got Glenn colouring me Purple!

We got Alan Going UP the Wall

We got Jay looking for his connection . .

AND to top it . .

We got DSE leaping about with various video accoutremonts hanging and dangling!!


.. and all I did was to "attempt" to bring a 25 year anniversary concerning a technology that I've just about realised what Ctrl+Alt+Delete means - to the attention of you lot!!!


Seesh ..

Well why didn't you say so!

Eh . . going soft in the head .. anyway, y'all had more fun this way!

???????? There's a world outside of our computer screen.......... this can not be!!!!!! Grazie is trying to lead us down a dangerous path!!!!!! Stop this crazy stuff........ To suggest that people may leave their monitor screen, pickup a camera and pass thru that big "front" door,(I think its called this), go into the forbidden zone, sunlight!

3 words . . "The Truman Show"

.. I guess DSE has never looked behind that thing they call sky, huh? You tap it, sounds much like 5-ply. Oh yes . .. The Galaxy IS curved!

I knew there was a heat wave in London recently, only did not realise how high it got.

BTW - The IBM pc was marketed as a "Personal Computer". The first ones were sold in Norway in 1982. And me, being slow and out of money did not get a pc until 1984, and then in was a Canon. Waste of space really, but it was great for text, and had a much better screen than the IBMs of the day. Switched to AT when they came around. 20 MB harddisk. Wow! But I did get a Roland screen for it. One that could render music black on white instead of the green on semi-black that IBM had to offer.
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