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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The Good Ol' Days of Computing?
Date: 30 Oct 2025 20:21:26 GMT
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:29:50 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> On 10/30/25 02:29, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:49:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>> 
>>>     Hey, it had it's place - an important place. However
>>>     tastes/interests vary.
>>>
>>>     "Industrial"/embedded is very interesting, and useful,
>>>     unto itself.
>>>
>>>     I'm just wondering what 'modern computing' would look like without
>>>     the cheap 'home pc' push.
>> 
>> Chromebooks... IBMs vision has always been thin clients with everything
>> running on big iron.  MS is going that way too. Works like a champ
>> unless somebody screws up AWS's DNS.
> 
>    AND you have a really high speed connection ...

AOL on dialup. Enuf said.