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Science fiction nonsense! 
Total rubbish, as if people would be happy to sit at a computer and talk to each other all day. Next they will be wanting us to work from home!!!
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
I'm a bit shocked about how accurate he was!
A man with vision, eh, Jen? Can you imagine how we people must have shook their heads and said 'yeah.. sure.... nutter!' at the time!
I remember a bloke I used to know in the late 70s sat in the pub telling us he had just given up his job in a school to go and learn computing because 'one day everyone's going to own one' How we scoffed! I bet he's minted now....
Originally Posted by KaffyBaffy:
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
I'm a bit shocked about how accurate he was!
A man with vision, eh, Jen? Can you imagine how we people must have shook their heads and said 'yeah.. sure.... nutter!' at the time!
I remember a bloke I used to know in the late 70s sat in the pub telling us he had just given up his job in a school to go and learn computing because 'one day everyone's going to own one' How we scoffed! I bet he's minted now....
It's made booking my theatre tickets so much easier!
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Cold Sweat:
It's made booking my theatre tickets so much easier!
But even now, THEY still get it wrong 
Too true moonie. Do not believe them when they say it was 'couputer error'. Computers cannot EVER make a mistake, however the people programing/using them can - and frequently do.
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Cold Sweat:
It's made booking my theatre tickets so much easier!
But even now, THEY still get it wrong
Too true moonie. Do not believe them when they say it was 'couputer error'. Computers cannot EVER make a mistake, however the people programing/using them can - and frequently do.
Damn right too
Originally Posted by moonie:
My dad used to be a mobile crane driver. He put the one of the first computers into a bank. They had to take the roof off to get it in 
It was like that at the Eagle Star building in Cheltenham. The insurance company had to have reinforced walls and celilings to support the first computer which had to be in the top floor:
It was the tallest offices building in Cheltenham and must have been quite a challenge to get the computer in.
I was sent to do a HND in computer science in the early seventies. The computer concerned took up a huge room.
I was dribbling and wetting my pants in the early seventies. Some things never change.
My mum's work's first computer was a massive 1K. Only the electronics engineer was allowed to program it. it used Fortran. So me and my sisters, well my older one, would visit my mum occasionally at work, we came in a few days after they got the computer....quick look at the manual....and dashed off a couple of small routines....annoyed the hell out of everyone(except my mum) 'cos computers were these dead tricky things to get to grips with! We were just early secondary school age.
Originally Posted by KaffyBaffy:
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
I'm a bit shocked about how accurate he was!
A man with vision, eh, Jen? Can you imagine how we people must have shook their heads and said 'yeah.. sure.... nutter!' at the time!
I remember a bloke I used to know in the late 70s sat in the pub telling us he had just given up his job in a school to go and learn computing because 'one day everyone's going to own one' How we scoffed! I bet he's minted now....
I remember our Maths/Games teacher leaving to work with computers. .it was all punch cards back then.. We were surprised she was leaving a Teaching job for something like that.. little did we know.. .
it wasn't even suggested to us as a career, which when I did finally study computing pissed me right off as I loved writing code. . back then us girlies were secretary's, mummy's or if lucky we got a job in a bank or as a teacher but weren't expected to be at work much beyond 25 [the bank didn't start paying into female pensions until they were 25 on the premise they'd all be gone at home with kids so it was a waste of a pension contribution. .] thanks to introduction of equal rights for women we got our pensions early and they were backdated too to when we started work same as when the boys got theirs
those were the days 
Originally Posted by Cold Sweat:
It's made booking my theatre tickets so much easier!
Still got to go to the bloody theatre and watch the damned thing though! 
That chap looks a bit like Arthur C Clarke.
I still have a computer that size in my house and it works perfectly fine thank you very much. I don't need one of these new fangled devices!
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
That chap looks a bit like Arthur C Clarke.
I still have a computer that size in my house and it works perfectly fine thank you very much. I don't need one of these new fangled devices!
We use ours to dry the washing on