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kwood1 · 61-69, M
All things considered I think the older generations have kept up with technology changes amazingly. Sixty or seventy years ago the underlying structure was there - radio, cable, computing etc, but essential additions from flat screens to wireless networks were needed to make things happen. So many of those old sci-fi TV shows guessed how this might happen, but we still can't be beamed up ...
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@kwood1 Flat screens, eh?
I have a generic CAD primer whose cover photograph certainly looks dated.
It shows presumably the author's own computer, comprises a hefty CRT monitor sat on a large white box with 5" and 3.5" floppy-disc drives. The keyboard is white with white and grey keys, the mouse white. The two printers adjacent to it, appear to be roll-fed, possibly dot-matrix, machines
Though the image on the screen is in colour, with a black background.
When was this book first published?
1999.... all of twenty-six years ago; but my copy is of the latest re-publishing, in 2010 so at least this Century!)
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Sci-fi? Sci-reality too. Somewhere I have a copy of a Tomorrow's World book complete with its title printed in that strange two-thickness font thought suitably "computery" in its late-1970s / early-1980s era. Such books are now interesting historically, for showing how science and engineering have developed, were predicted to develop - and sometimes failed to develop.
Progress hit hard one employee of a comany for whom I worked in the 1980s. It manufactured industrial screen-printing-machines with a growing market for very high-precision ones for making electronic circuit boards. He was a very talented mechanical-engineering designer, and was put in charge of changing the products to meet what was fast becoming THE new way to make PCB-based electronics. What no-one could foresee was that suddenly the electronics industry found an even better new way, and the poor chap had the rug - or drawing-board - pulled from under him. He was not made redundant but was now a middle-manager with little to manage compatible with his skills - which does not include sometimes helping pack completed machines for delivery. Disillusioned, he eventually left, I gather to somewhere wanting him to use his talents fully. (The company thrives still, albeit under different owners rather than full independence.)
I have a generic CAD primer whose cover photograph certainly looks dated.
It shows presumably the author's own computer, comprises a hefty CRT monitor sat on a large white box with 5" and 3.5" floppy-disc drives. The keyboard is white with white and grey keys, the mouse white. The two printers adjacent to it, appear to be roll-fed, possibly dot-matrix, machines
Though the image on the screen is in colour, with a black background.
When was this book first published?
1999.... all of twenty-six years ago; but my copy is of the latest re-publishing, in 2010 so at least this Century!)
....
Sci-fi? Sci-reality too. Somewhere I have a copy of a Tomorrow's World book complete with its title printed in that strange two-thickness font thought suitably "computery" in its late-1970s / early-1980s era. Such books are now interesting historically, for showing how science and engineering have developed, were predicted to develop - and sometimes failed to develop.
Progress hit hard one employee of a comany for whom I worked in the 1980s. It manufactured industrial screen-printing-machines with a growing market for very high-precision ones for making electronic circuit boards. He was a very talented mechanical-engineering designer, and was put in charge of changing the products to meet what was fast becoming THE new way to make PCB-based electronics. What no-one could foresee was that suddenly the electronics industry found an even better new way, and the poor chap had the rug - or drawing-board - pulled from under him. He was not made redundant but was now a middle-manager with little to manage compatible with his skills - which does not include sometimes helping pack completed machines for delivery. Disillusioned, he eventually left, I gather to somewhere wanting him to use his talents fully. (The company thrives still, albeit under different owners rather than full independence.)