Like Rory , I grew up with a lame arse PC. I too was bitterly jealous of those amiga owners. With their fancy fandanlged-hand-holding-a-floppy-disk bios, and versions of Marble Madness that looked just like the arcade, they had no idea how lucky they were. But, I'm not so sure that the grey box which evaporated my childhood, (while I'm very fond of it) was actually the height of eighties cool. In fact, the computer I owned was far, far worse than the virtual boy of PCs - something that made those poor betamax owners laugh themselves into hysterical coniptions as to what a loser of a product this thing actually was, and they paid 450 dollars for a flashing digital clock. My dad bought us a genuine, IBM PC-JX. The IBM PC-Jr is widely regarded as one of IBM's dumbest decisions. What very few know, is that after the IBM PC-Jr flopped dismally in the US, IBM was left with a bunch of leftover hardware that nobody wanted. I can hear the meetings now: shimmery dissolve in "Jo...
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ReplyDeleteAh...yes!
ReplyDeleteGiven the problems I have faced over the past 12 months....I would have to say that is very true...
.....and I'm no Einstein ;)
Yep. Einstein was a firm believer in discussing his questions with others. Many of his greatest realizations came after talking his problems through with others. Listening to their questions sparked new avenues of thought in his own mind, which often led to the answers he was looking for.
ReplyDeleteI suppose from this we learn that it is more often vital to deal with problems as a group, than alone. I think we find our answers quicker and easier when we expose our thought processes rather than keep them hidden inside where they get tangled in our our ignorances.