On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
> > At 19:57 -0500 4/22/04, Sellam wrote:
> > The computer is now just
> > hardware, and soon enough, with cool technology like keychain harddrives
> > or what not, you'll bring in your own OS and software tools and modify the
> > hardware to your purposes, leaving it as it was for the next user.
>
> EXACTLY the way that it was ~25 years ago,
> when machines had FLOPPY drives,
> but NO hard drives.
Indeed. Sigh. Another case of computer ideas coming full circle and
being passed off as "new". I must admit that I'd even forgotten that this
is how it used to be <ashamed blush>.
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