Nope. I was a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, OH.
Nope. I was a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, OH.
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All governments lie about casualties. Normally 10x times greater than what the CEO announces as"the company line". The US lost around 500,000 dead soldiers when you could those killed in Vietnam and who died in hospitals after being discharged from the Army, 5,000 Americans are list by the US Govt as POW/MIA when many believe at least twice as many were abandoned by their own buddies to rot in the jungles otr serve as Sex Slaves.
It was busy but I could control my work flow a lot more without computers. I used to call it "strategic submission of paperwork" ie submit something at a certain time, knowing it would not be attended to for several days, etc.
Surprised no one has mentioned the not-so-mobile phones of the mid- and late-eighties:
https://newatlas.com/mobile-pnone-40-year-anniversary-photos/25677/#gallery:3
Wrong photo. Click through to see the real dinosaur.
G Cup wrote:
In the late 80s/very early 90s I remember my father, who worked in R&D for an automotive company, bringing his 'laptop' home.
I could barely lift it, and it came inside what looked like a large beige plastic briefcase. No windows - DOS prompt only. I remember playing a game called Mars Attacks on it, but I've no idea what my dad actually used it for. Just a status symbol I think.
Did it look something like this? I used one too in that same period - I think it was made by Zenith. I wrote a lot of lotus-123 macros at the time. They would typically take about an hour to run so I would start them before I went to lunch as only one software program could run at a time. You could literally watch the cursor moving across the screen as it executed each command.
As an analyst we all had desktops in the office but only one portable between about 5 of us so we took turns taking it home. One morning while I was driving into work on a highway someone ran a stop sign and pulled right in front of me at and I hit him broadside going around 50. My car was totaled but fortunately I wasn't hurt. The computer was in its case in the trunk but it somehow ended up inside the car in the back seat. When I finally got around to checking it just started right up as if nothing had happened. They really were built like bricks.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/174734282511?hash=item28aef98f0f:g:HegAAOSwaC5geVSRThis was the first portable computer I had to service:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer#/media/File:IBM-portable-PC-01.jpg
We called them "luggables". It weighed 30 pounds!