The point, is, how fast, technology, in this case, becomes, obsolete! When these innovations were produced, THEY, were the NEXT, "Big Thing", as they are commonly called! I worked in the R&D field, for over 20 years and surprised at how many here, are either engineers, marketers and end users, as they say, in the business! What, you have no memories? If anyone in this group, remembers "Pong", you know what I'm talking about! Pong, was the very first electronic game, that was massed produced! Atari, IntelliVision and Super Mario Brothers, followed! An analogy of AP can parallel, what I've just said; AP - Old, established, religious camp settlement, pretty much, like Ocean Grove. A plact to "take the air" and worship! Segregated, bigoted, whatever you wish to call it, because people, of a darker hue, could only "work" there, not "live" there. A class and racial system, still practiced to this day, in theory, if not actual! A phenomenon or movement, dubbed, "regentrification", occurs, when long neglected urban centers, done so, due to "white flight", occured, in the 60's, taking the jobs, factories, etc., to the suburbs, rendering the school systems, "integrated" by the 1954, Brown vs. the Board decree, still leaving the schools, predominantly black/hispanic/poor, to furthur deteriorate, either from overfunding of suburban schools, resulting in your "Abbott", districts of today, that no matter how much money, you throw at a problem, the problem, remains, unresolved! Due to inflation, city and suburban dwellers, have the means, to take "old and deteriorated" properties and refurbish them, commonly called, regentrification, which pushes the poor and underserved to be "moved out", in favor of this "new money"! Minorities, like me, can opt to stay or move away, because I can! Any questions?
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Allan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what is the point of these posts? Maybe to say that comes a time to let things go? Sometime new is better no matter how much you liked the old. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Hinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 4:05:53 PM > Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: Good bye Pony.... > > How about the brief reign of the Betacam VCRs that were as big as TVs > when they came out! > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@ > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Remember the "portable" record players? They were as big as a > > suitcase > > > > and you had to run the plug from the stoop through the window. > > Try > > > > jogging with that sucker. > > > > > > > > > How about: > > - trying to rig the original cable boxes to get Playboy TV. One step > > above dumpster diving, > > > > -working at Merrill - "high technology lab" where we got to test the > > first cellphones (car phones). Suitcases. To call into to > > checkaccount balances and our first compaq laptop at Merrill. A > > Suitecase with a 3x3 screen. Played monopoly on it. > > > > Old age sucks. > > > > SO my daughter is on her 2nd apple laptop, 3rd ipod. Free music. > > > > I'm finally MAC, not PC. (almost). I just trust MSFT vs. APPL stock. > > JJ? > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
