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My profession is in the IT industry. My first computer was a Univac, no screens, punched cards and tapes only, and a 50,000 record sort took a couple days. When we were showing off the computer, we would start the necessary programs to spin all the tape drives and flash all the lights -- a normal procedure in those days.
In 1974, our company purchased some of the first CRT's commercially available. All they could do were roll-and-scroll and we thought it an expensive way to display a card deck.
In 1983, Apple was at a computer show presenting Lisa, which displayed black-on-white screen graphics. Apple drew quite a crowd all day, but most people went home unimpressed. "Pretty, but what good is it?".
From an old issue of Windows Magazine dated February of 1994 (just six years ago).
Mike Elgan the managing editor, in responding to the question: What is the Internet?:
" The Internet is a vast, disorganized network that connects millions of
computers. Little effort has been made to make the Internet
user-friendly.....it's not for novices. Unless there is something specific
on the Internet you need and can't get elsewhere, it's probably not worth the
trouble."
Nowadays, we have mice, flat screens, zillions of colors, oop, gui, and wysiwyg. A few short years ago, we had Max Headroom. Now we have Ananova. I wonder what they'll say about her?
Other than being a computer geek of sorts, I enjoy tennis and skiing, neither of which I do as much as I used to.
Here's me about 8 years ago (that's Steamboat Springs in the background).
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This page was last updated 03/22/2004
