Looking at Today's Technology from Yesterday

[jeriendhal]

A reporter from 1981 examines how those funny "personal computers" might effect how people read newspapers in THE FUTURE.

Comments

[aynne-witch.livejournal.com]

pretty spiffy changes in the years since

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I like how the one guy was tagged as "Home computer owner". Hee.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

it's sad, but I remember the Home Computer Hype....
My father had one of those plug-the-phone-handpiece-in modems for his work...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Same here. He got listings from a national real estate database back when he sold houses. ;)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to imagine there being only 3,000 home computer users in the Bay Area...

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I know. It's not working. I know my dad's cousin was one of those. He has a computer that worked with cassette tapes.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Ha, so did we when I was growing up. The good old Atari 800 has the slowest cassette drive on the market to. Moving up to 5 1/4 inh floppy discs was like the first time you had a computer wit ha hard drive.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

The part that caught my attention... two hours to download the paper. Two hours. Oof. I'd forgotten what those old dialup modems speeds were like. And that was the paper without pictures, comics, or other byte hungery items.