Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
Come on Warren...I've heard that story 50 times already :-) Happy New Year Willie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Warren Brown Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 2:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube Actually, there was a desktop computer called GENIAC which came out in 1955. Quite crude but it worked fine. I got an unmolested one off ebay about a year ago. I first saw one when I was an IBM CE in the sixties. Heathkit had an analog computer in 1956. Again I got one off ebay two years ago In early 1970's an electronics magazine featured a four bit computer based on the Intel 4004 chip. GENIAC -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac HEATHKIT -- http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/heath_educational_analog_compu.html 4004 -- http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html ANTIQUE COLLECTOR From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:30 PM Subject: Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube In 1388417488.11875.16.camel@localhost, on 12/30/2013 at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com said: Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? Remember. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
1 - PDP stood for personal data processor. The PDP-1 was advertised w/a teddy bear which I believe was delivered with it. So it depends how big your desk was. 2 - In the 1960s @ Oak Ridge it was common to order equipment, including computers, by adding parts of the product specs into the bid requirements. I was told of one RPQ (or whatever they were I called - I can't remember) that was passed on by all vendors. A discreet call was made to one vendor and they were asked to compare the RPQ to the specs for one of their computers. I think the equipment was a PDP-8S but I don' trust the memory. They were ideal for interfacing to experiments because they were cheap to buy and cheap to implement and they came with logic boards running on the same backplane that could be used for interfacing at low cost. Originally needed interfaces were either made completely in house or built from off the shelf equipment seriously modified by the electronic techs. Later companies like Ortec (bought by EGG) and Tennelec were founded by lab scientists to build commonly used equipment. In our labs (physics, chemistry, ...) you could build or have built whatever your budget would allow. The Mathematics Division (incl. Robert Rannie of Share fame) were too busy trying to get the mainframes doing their assigned job. IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 12/29/2013 04:28:19 PM: From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 12/29/2013 04:28 PM Subject: Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:30:52 -0600, Andy Wood wrote: Some may say that the HP 9100 was only a calculator, but Bill Hewlett himself supposedly said that HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a marketing ploy (knowing that potential customers could more easily justify the purchase of a calculator than of a computer. Expensive calculator vs. low-priced computer. Perhaps somewhat thereafter DEC was advertising the PDP-8 with such as Aha! The old 'computer in a gas chromatograph trick!' And a coworker of mine told of an experience in a physics lab of outflanking the IT Politburo by ordering an expansion memory as an addressable latch. I suppose there persists a doughnut hole between the desktop and the Enterprise where IT continues to obstruct purchases, according to Parkinson's Law of Triviality. In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant - Athur C. Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970. Is that Clarke? I'm not entirely familiar with his appearance. And the filming location? Sri Lanka? -- gil - The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:31:27 -0500, Kirk Talman wrote: $)C1 - PDP stood for personal data processor. The PDP-1 was advertised w/a teddy bear which I believe was delivered with it. So it depends how big your desk was. Programmed Data Processor, I heard at MIT circa 1962. 2 - In the 1960s @ Oak Ridge it was common to order equipment, including computers, by adding parts of the product specs into the bid requirements. I can top that. I was once hired for a state job under civil service where the job announcement was practically a paraphrase of my résumé. I knew the person who was to be my lead; I didn't ask questions. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Kurt Talman wrote | 1 - PDP stood for personal data processor. John McCarthy insisted that it was an acronym for Programmed Data Processor and objected to it as all but vacuous, too generic because it described any computer. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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In ofca19006c.9b43266e-on85257c54.006478fb-85257c54.0065c...@tsys.com, on 01/02/2014 at 01:31 PM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com said: PDP stood for personal data processor. Programmable. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
Actually, there was a desktop computer called GENIAC which came out in 1955. Quite crude but it worked fine. I got an unmolested one off ebay about a year ago. I first saw one when I was an IBM CE in the sixties. Heathkit had an analog computer in 1956. Again I got one off ebay two years ago In early 1970's an electronics magazine featured a four bit computer based on the Intel 4004 chip. GENIAC -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac HEATHKIT -- http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/heath_educational_analog_compu.html 4004 -- http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html ANTIQUE COLLECTOR From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:30 PM Subject: Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube In 1388417488.11875.16.camel@localhost, on 12/30/2013 at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com said: Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? Remember. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ¢ One day , a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
In article p06240802cee6934cf57b@[192.168.1.11], Robert A. Rosenberg IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote: [Arthur C Clarke] also invented/predicted the synchronous satellite being used for communications. I saw a picture of him at a Science Fiction Convention wearing a T-Shirt which read I invented the synchronous satellite and all I got was this T-Shirt to make this point. He not only predicted it (including pointing out the orbit it required to function), he predicted that it would be used to allow sufficiently-wealthy citizens to evade laws against pornography, and incidentally referred to that predicted pornography targeting the four major sexes, implicitly de-marginalizing homosexual men and homosexual women. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
In 1388417488.11875.16.camel@localhost, on 12/30/2013 at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com said: Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? Remember. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
In m3zjnjsodg@garlic.com, on 12/29/2013 at 09:50 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: note that (at least low-end and mid-range) 360s 370s were emulation on some native microprocessor ... so 5100 wasn't all that different. The data paths on the 2030, 2040, 2050, 2065 and 2085 were designed with simulating a S/360 in mind. Was the same true of the 5100? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 09:50 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: total kernel time ... moved to microcode gained approx. 72% of kernel time. Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 14:30 -0600, Andy Wood wrote: HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a marketing ploy Heh. Bob Brigham once told me that the Bell System made electronic switching systems (ESS) because they were prohibited from marketing computers. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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David, I remember the magnuson, it was PCM for IBM s/370s, I *think*.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 30, 2013, at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 09:50 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: total kernel time ... moved to microcode gained approx. 72% of kernel time. Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
In 1974, when that video was taped, a desk would fit on a computer. :-) Bill Fairchild - Original Message - From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 8:26:12 AM Subject: Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube It shows how hard it is to predict the distant future. Predictions either come sooner than predicted, or not at all. The Altair 8800 was only one year away; the TRS-80 only three years distant. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Warren Brown Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube AMAZING From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:08 PM Subject: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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On 30 December 2013 10:31, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? Much earlier the 370/165 and /168 had a Load MicroProgram instruction that loaded microcode from main storage. X'B9', iirc. Used by OLTEP tests, I think. Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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That could make for some VERY interesting results from a bad branch...maybe that's why modern PCs sometimes wedge to the point of needing a power cycle: they've reimplemented this technology! :-D On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 30 December 2013 10:31, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? Much earlier the 370/165 and /168 had a Load MicroProgram instruction that loaded microcode from main storage. X'B9', iirc. Used by OLTEP tests, I think. Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 14:55 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: Much earlier the 370/165 and /168 had a Load MicroProgram instruction that loaded microcode from main storage. X'B9', iirc. Used by OLTEP tests, I think. I have a hazy memory of the /145 having a similar instruction (possibly a variant of DIAGNOSE). It required the CE key to be present. I turned on lots of red lights on that /145 console trying to adjust the barricade register that separated microcode store from s370 store. That machine was a private playground for a few of us on the weekends, a half-million-dollar Adventure game. I kinda miss those days. -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Ed Gould wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA My, oh my! Thanks Ed. That bold claim came true at all! ;-) Nice vid, I must admit! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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It shows how hard it is to predict the distant future. Predictions either come sooner than predicted, or not at all. The Altair 8800 was only one year away; the TRS-80 only three years distant. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Warren Brown Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube AMAZING From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:08 PM Subject: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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He also predicted home networking. That was quite a while later. On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:26:12 -0500 Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: :It shows how hard it is to predict the distant future. Predictions either come sooner than predicted, or not at all. The Altair 8800 was only one year away; the TRS-80 only three years distant. : :Charles : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Warren Brown :Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:29 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :Subject: Re: ? One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube : :AMAZING : : : : From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net :To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:08 PM :Subject: ? One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube : : :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA IBM 5100 1973 at Palo Alto Science Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100 enuf of 1130 emulation to run apl\1130 (SCAMP) product out in 1978 was enuf of 360 emulation (on PALM) to run apl\360 note that (at least low-end and mid-range) 360s 370s were emulation on some native microprocessor ... so 5100 wasn't all that different. PASC also did the apl microcode assist for 370/145 ... apl with microcode assist on 145 ran almost as fast os on 370/168. some person also helped with the vm370 microcode assist for 138 148. Spring 1975, I got sucked into helping endicott do ecps for 138/148 (virgil/tully) ... it was sort of part of the mad rush to get out 370 products after the dearth during the FS period (which is also credited with giving clone processors a market foothold) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys Endicott had 6kbyte space for microcode and was to select the 6kbyte of highest used vm370 kernel pathlength. Typical 360/370 microcode emulation ran an avg. of 10 native instructions per 360/370 instruction. runs that measured elapsed time frequency of kernel instruction sequences ... sorted by percent of total kernel time http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 kernel 370-native instructioins translated almost byte-for-byte ... so 6kbytes of highest used kernel instructions accounted for 79+ percent of total kernel time ... moved to microcode gained approx. 72% of kernel time. then they sucked in to spending a year offon running around the world laying out 138/148 to the product administrators and business forecasters in the different countries ... going over details about how they stacked up against the competition. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:50:03 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: IBM 5100 1973 at Palo Alto Science Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100 Besides the IBM 5100, there were other desktop machines that could be called computers. Two that I personally encountered were the Datapoint 2200 from 1971, and the HP 9100 from 1968. Some may say that the HP 9100 was only a calculator, but Bill Hewlett himself supposedly said that HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a marketing ploy (knowing that potential customers could more easily justify the purchase of a calculator than of a computer. In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant - Athur C. Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:30:52 -0600, Andy Wood wrote: Some may say that the HP 9100 was only a calculator, but Bill Hewlett himself supposedly said that HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a marketing ploy (knowing that potential customers could more easily justify the purchase of a calculator than of a computer. Expensive calculator vs. low-priced computer. Perhaps somewhat thereafter DEC was advertising the PDP-8 with such as Aha! The old 'computer in a gas chromatograph trick!' And a coworker of mine told of an experience in a physics lab of outflanking the IT Politburo by ordering an expansion memory as an addressable latch. I suppose there persists a doughnut hole between the desktop and the Enterprise where IT continues to obstruct purchases, according to Parkinson's Law of Triviality. In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant - Athur C. Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970. Is that Clarke? I'm not entirely familiar with his appearance. And the filming location? Sri Lanka? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ¢ One day , a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
At 15:28 -0600 on 12/29/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: ñ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - You: In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant - Athur C. Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970. Is that Clarke? I'm not entirely familiar with his appearance. Yes that was him (the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey). That clip looks like it was part of a longer interview since they were specifically talking about computers in the year 2001. He also invented/predicted the synchronous satellite being used for communications. I saw a picture of him at a Science Fiction Convention wearing a T-Shirt which read I invented the synchronous satellite and all I got was this T-Shirt to make this point. Another comment had to do with the prediction being off in the time frame required. Note that he was talking not about when it would occur but only that it would have occurred by 2001. Note his prediction about the impact of the Internet. BTW: He as using this technology for the 1968 movie's screen play sending the files back and forth to Stanley Kubrick. As to short sighted predictions, I was at a Science Fiction convention years ago at which Isaac Asimov gave a talk about how accurate authors were in predicting the future where he said that they were too narrow on their predictions. He used the movie Destination Moon as an example. In the movie the trip was done by private industry not the government and noted that their proof that they were on the moon was to take a snap shot of the crew with Earth over their shoulders. The reality that when man actually landed on the moon, everyone on Earth would be watching them in real time was too fantastic a prediction to make and have it believed. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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AMAZING From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:08 PM Subject: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
