Deconstructing the PC revolution

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coondoggie

on Monday November 05 2007, @11:20AM

coondoggie writes "Room-sized computers were among the recollections shared at a two-day Vintage Computer Festival in Silicon Valley Nov. 3-4. Up for discussion was how products viewed as primitive today — a desktop computer with just 4KB of memory; a refrigerator-sized magnetic disk drive with just 5MB capacity; an Intel processor capable of running only a calculator — could have found a market, much less started a revolution. Yet they did. About 200 people, many of them of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety, attended the event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/110507-deconstructing-pc-revolution.html"
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