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RE: What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?
July 9, 2015 at 12:34 pm
"Daddy, what's a phone call? Why wouldn't you just beam your thoughts directly into their brain via the ubernet?"
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RE: What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?
July 9, 2015 at 12:58 pm
I remember when floppy disks were actually floppy.
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RE: What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?
July 9, 2015 at 1:05 pm
(July 9, 2015 at 10:40 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I'm collecting early calculators. It's fun and interesting to me.
In High School I was taught vacuum tube technology (mhos and transconductance, grid bias and thermionic emission) and maybe I haven't used it much, but it gives me an understanding of the 'big picture' that freshly graduated techies these days do not have.
They're still used in high-power RF transmitters.
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RE: What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?
July 9, 2015 at 3:48 pm
(July 9, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Easy Guns Wrote: (July 9, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Iroscato Wrote: The Save icon on most office applications is still - STILL - in the form of a floppy disc. Very soon there will be an entire generation that barely knows the reason for this.
I wonder if some day I may be explaining to my grand children that cell phones are called phones because they used to be used to make phone calls, and subsequently blow their minds
And then explain that they didn't have screens or buttons, you had to look up a person's name in the phone book and DIAL the number. Watch them recoil in horror as you explain the dial concept.
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