This thread made one heck of a jump from packaging to old computer stuff :) I'm an electronics tech..at least have a degree in electronics, and used to read Popular Electronics mag like the bible...so always knew about all the new computers being developed...drooled over the Heath catalog quite a bit.... The Altair, etc...Finally bought an Atari 800 with tape storage, 16k ram....but what is interesting, the programmers started to max out the system...software, even with the minimal hardware, could do some amazing things... Now we have more computing power on our desktops than all the computing power combined back in the 60s....and we're still not happy. The software, always getting more bloated, seems to bog down even the most powerful desktop systems....

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