Emulators of Classic Computers

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu Jan 15 16:34:47 2004

On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, der Mouse wrote:
>
>>> But it's not even unlikely that half a century from now our clean and
>>> neat binary logic hardware will be as robust and orthogonal-seeming
>>> as electron tube logic does today. In fact, I think this is just as
>>> or more likely than the former scenario.
>>
>> And any decent electronics hacker can interface electron-tube logic to
>> modern-day logic with fairly minimal effort. I expect the analogous
>> statement to be true 50 years from now.
>
> If there are any electronics hackers in the future. That sort of
> activity
> may either be banned or the knowledge lost to time and bad laws, or a
> combination thereof. Or maybe we won't even be around in fifty years.
> Sorry, I'm a pessimist these days :(
>

I suspect 50 years from now things will have turned almost full circle,
The
device that people will use will be small, portable, and always
connected
to the Internet with a huge wireless pipe, all the actual computing will
take place in great mainframe like computing centers with everything
carefully
watched, monitored and recorded. The user will be able to access their
data
from any device anywhere, and it will be stored in the "internet" for
them
free of charge.
Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 16:34:47 GMT