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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95

From "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
Date 2015-07-23 06:26 +1000
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"Quadibloc" <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 
news:349e8c20-708b-4f0d-b15a-834df4459bc1@googlegroups.com...
> On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 6:20:09 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> Tim Streater wrote:
>
>> > People buy
>> > computers to use as tools, not to write bespoke software on, certainly
>> > not at least if the bespoke software they're writing is 99% the same as
>> > the guy's next door.
>
>> The "computer as a tool" didn't happen until the mid-80s when PCs became
>> cheap enough for Joe Shmoe to buy and use.
>
> Your sentence alone, quoted in isolation, without the context of what you 
> were
> replying to, would obviously be inaccurate.
>
> A "tool" is a machine that enables people to do things more easily than 
> they
> could without it. Thus, a crowbar is a tool, and MANIAC I was a tool - it 
> let
> people do the large number of numerical calculations required to design a
> hydrogen bomb more easily than if they had to do them by hand.
>
> But _given_ the context, you're talking about computers being used to run
> packaged software, and not being programmed. That is a different matter.
>
> And it is true that few computers - not even PDP-8 computers - were bought 
> to
> run only packaged software.

Quite a few of those were, most obviously with TSS-8 which was
about the cheapest timeshared teaching environment buyable at
one time. And the 8s used for word processing too.

> (Of course, a PDP-8 in an embedded system,

Plenty of them weren't.

> some of which existed, would naturally do so.)
> That did only happen as the usual practice with micros.

That's not correct either.

> That computers were used to run _some_ packaged software, other than 
> compilers
> and utilities and so on, though - that had been around for longer. Lots of
> companies sold things like database programs for the IBM 360. That got 
> started
> with something called "unbundling".

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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-19 13:25 +0000
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-20 13:29 +0000
    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-07-20 14:42 +0100
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      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-21 12:53 +0000
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-07-21 14:01 +0100
          Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-07-21 14:42 +0000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-07-30 22:50 +0000
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                Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> - 2015-07-23 06:08 +1000
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              Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-07-24 05:59 -0700
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