wanted a personal system in the office, on the university campus or at home". They've shrunk in size over the years and basically we now have the power of 100 mainframes in a small casing. I love technology.We couldn't agree more and hopefully my laptop does not take a day off as I need it for work.
"It's hard to imagine a time when people didn't have these computers sitting on their desks," he told LiveScience, noting that traditional secretaries employed for typing essentially went extinct as a result. "The personal computer was a kind of leveling thing, letting you do all kinds of things at your own desk, like word processing." Retailing at $1,565—about $3,500 in 2006 dollars—the system was not cheap, but still within grasp of many people.
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