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Re: Canon Cat Forth Source

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Mux wrote:

>> I really really wanted a Canon Cat back in 1987, but the $1495 price tag
>> was way beyond my means --- by comparison, the Atari-ST was $999 and had
>> 1MB of RAM plus MIDI support, and you could get Forth for it as an
>> option, so it was a much better bargain --- I couldn't afford it either
>> though.
>>
>  > Everything was expensive back then --- I wanted the Atari-ST, but I
>  > ended up lowering my standards yet again and getting an IBM clone ---
>  > so I learned MS-DOS (barely better than CP/M, and it had those weird
>  > "terminate-and-stay-resident" utilities that always clashed with each
>  > other).
>> 
>> Now I can walk into WalMart and buy a dual-core 64-bit laptop for
>> $400-$500 (about $150 in 1987 money) --- back in 1987 I would have
>> predicted that we would have a lunar colony by 2015, but would not have
>> predicted such inexpensive and incredibly powerful computers, and would
>> not have predicted the internet either.
> 
> It's amazing how expensive technology was in those days, especially if you
> account for inflation. Atari 2600 games were like $30 in those days. For
> 4k roms :-)

If you weren't able to predict the current Internet and the use of it, you 
might want to read "The Shockwave Rider" from John Brunner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider

It was written in 1975, and it's prediction accuracy is stunning.  Not only 
did he predict the negative impact of Reagonomics (which didn't become big 
on the political agenda until 5 years later), or a global network similar to 
the Internet, he also managed to predict Wikileaks- or Snowden-like big 
leaks of secret state surveillance databases.

Ok, now it's too late, most predictions became true ;-).

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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Canon Cat Forth Source Mux <Yvo.Zoer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 12:51 -0700
  Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-04 14:32 -0700
    Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Mux <Yvo.Zoer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 14:44 -0700
      Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-04 15:31 -0700
        Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Mux <Yvo.Zoer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 20:50 -0700
        Re: Canon Cat Forth Source hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-04 23:52 -0700
          Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Mux <Yvo.Zoer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 06:52 -0700
            Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-09-05 16:26 +0200
            Re: Canon Cat Forth Source hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-05 21:11 -0700
              Re: Canon Cat Forth Source dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-06 07:17 +0000
                Re: Canon Cat Forth Source rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 15:14 -0400
                Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-08 14:31 -0700
              Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-08 14:31 -0700
                Re: Canon Cat Forth Source "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-09-08 23:14 +0100
                Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-08 15:30 -0700
                Re: Canon Cat Forth Source hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-08 20:48 -0700
                Re: Canon Cat Forth Source "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-09-09 14:53 +0100
    Re: Canon Cat Forth Source "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2015-09-05 10:31 -0400
    Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-09-07 10:49 +0200
      Re: Canon Cat Forth Source hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-07 11:18 -0700
        Re: Canon Cat Forth Source rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 15:35 -0400
        Re: Canon Cat Forth Source "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-07 20:15 +0000
          Re: Canon Cat Forth Source dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-07 21:44 +0000
            Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-09-08 00:50 +0200
            Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-09-08 01:47 +0200
        Re: Canon Cat Forth Source dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-07 21:36 +0000
  Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-05 09:13 -0700
  Re: Canon Cat Forth Source Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2015-09-07 13:51 +0200
    Re: Canon Cat Forth Source hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-07 08:32 -0700
      Re: Canon Cat Forth Source "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-07 19:43 +0000
        Re: Canon Cat Forth Source borota@gmail.com - 2015-09-07 12:49 -0700
      Re: Canon Cat Forth Source "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-07 22:00 +0000

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