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LILEKS (James) :: Institute :: Compu-Promo

SeamusMurphy rated 31 months ago
In my perfect world, home PC's would still be the size of those prehistory 1950's-60's mega-vac computers, and powered by steam too. You know, you'd have to use one of those electric dryer "pig" type of plugs to just to hook up your monitor. The printers would o...

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squarefrog rated 26 months ago
This site is a geek history dream. Lots of pictures of room sized computers, with the equivalent power of a £1 calculator.
SeamusMurphy rated 31 months ago
In my perfect world, home PC's would still be the size of those prehistory 1950's-60's mega-vac computers, and powered by steam too. You know, you'd have to use one of those electric dryer "pig" type of plugs to just to hook up your monitor. The printers would only print out giant banners that read "Happy Birthday" or "Welcome Back" on light green striped paper...and there ought to be a bellows somewhere on the thing that you'd need to hand pump every twenty minutes or so. ...Look, no one said my perfect world was convenient.