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On 03/04/2011 01:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<0audnf54k6BKNwrQnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@earthlink.com>, Patricia
> Shanahan wrote:
>
>> On 4/2/2011 3:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> I remember the last interesting things I heard coming out of Xerox PARC
>>> was their idea of “boards”, “pads” and “tabs”, which were three different
>>> sizes of wirelessly-networked keyboardless computers. All user data lived
>>> in the cloud, so you could go into any office, pick up any one of these
>>> devices, and have all your own data immediately to hand.
>>
>> I think the trend is in that direction.
>
> Can be a two-edged sword. There have been some high-profile failures of
> cloud services.
>
> I don’t think the PARC researchers envisioned that these mobile devices
> would have gigabytes of storage on them—enough to do a lot without reference
> to any cloud.

When I first started work 2GB of storage took up a whole building of one 
of the biggest computer time sharing companies in the UK - Comshare:
http://www.answers.com/topic/comshare-inc

They have done well to survive

-- 
Dirk

http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology

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  Re: Android apps development Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2011-04-02 08:47 +0000
    Re: Android apps development Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-04-02 10:52 -0700
      Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 11:13 -0700
        Re: Android apps development Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 14:25 -0400
          Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 20:22 +0100
          Re: Android apps development Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-04-03 00:06 +0100
            Re: Android apps development Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 19:10 -0400
            Re: Android apps development Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 21:27 -0400
        Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 10:48 +1200
          Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 16:01 -0700
            Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 12:56 +1200
              Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 17:31 +0100
  Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-02 21:57 +1300
    Re: Android apps development Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-04-02 10:07 -0300
      Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 10:44 +1200
        Re: Android apps development Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-04-03 10:36 -0300
    Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 06:24 -0700
      Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 14:44 +0100
      Re: Android apps development Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-02 10:53 -0700
        Re: Android apps development Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-02 11:10 -0700
      Re: Android apps development Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-03 10:33 +1200
    Re: Android apps development Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 14:43 +0100
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