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Works best for Millenials and Gen-Xers.
Works best for Millenials and Gen-Xers.
What a computer cost the year you were born
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/what-a-computer-cost-the-year-you-were-born/ar-BBrNVsa?li=BBnbfcN&srcref=rss&ocid=iehrs Works best for Millenials and Gen-Xers. Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897 |
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I was born BC.
Before computers, that is. :) I did learn to use an abacus in grade school. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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1971 is the earliest?
I was using a PDP-8 then, but they were out of my price range. I shudder to think what a computer cost in 1950. "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." ~ AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) |