Old computer users (Was: Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?)

[Bob Elzer]

I had one of those.

Dual floppies, and I had visicalc when I was looking to buy my van.

When the salesman said he could get my payments down to $200 dollars a
month, I took the laptop out, 
plugged in the $200 and I told him he just cost me $5000 dollars. (over the
life of the loan)

He fell off his chair !!!
 

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
Dayley
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Old computer users (Was: Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?)

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Ryan Rix<phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for changing the subject line ;)
>
> The funny thing about all of this, and talking to the retro hacker guy 
> who sits next to me at work, is that I know what all of you are 
> talking about, and I'm only 17. Not sure that's depressing or not xD
>
> I guess that's what happens when you have the Jargon file and various 
> 'history' books and lore saved to your desktop and your pda for idle 
> reading
> ;)
>

History in general is vastly important, despite how it is treated in most
schools.  The history of our technology is more important every day as it
inserts itself deeper into our lives.  The history of computers is important
to me because it feeds the wonder I still feel for it after 20+ years
working with it.

I'm glad you are learning and appreciating history at such a young age.  It
will be a powerful source of inspiration in years to come.

An important history lesson from Eben Moglen, attorney and historian, can be
found in his keynote speech at the Red Hat Summit of 2006.
Watch it from a link at http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/videos/
Learn that copyright and patents were not about making people wealthy but
were a successful tool to attract innovated people to the young United
States!

All this talk of old stuff makes me want to fire up my Zenith ZFL-181 laptop
(http://www.1000bit.it/scheda.asp?id=1523) I paid $2500.00 for in 1986.
Yes, mine still works just fine.

Alan
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