[Info-vax] Fwd: Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:39:44 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> On 10/12/2011 2:24 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:
>>> In article <paul.nospam-FDF4DC.15043611102011 at pbook.sture.ch>, Paul
>>> Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>>
>>>>>> Did The Wail mention the price of Olsen's house? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Did it mention that it didn't have a computer in it? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Not exactly. They included his 1977 prediction 'that there is no
>>>> reason for any individual to have a computer in their home'.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is famous, but usually taken out of context. He wasn't referring
>>> to what most people think of when they read that, but rather to
>>> computer-controlled curtains, doors etc.
>>
>> Nevertheless he was wrong, I know of people who have a PDP in their
>> home.
>>
>>
>>
> I have three PCs, three Alphas, a VAX, two SPARC Workstations. . . .
> Then there's the Palm and two smart-phones.  And I may have forgotten
> one or two. . . .

Oh, I wasn't counting PCs. I have 14 of those running, most 24/7. The 
PDP-11s (4 of them) are two in running state, two not. All three VAXes 
run.

Then there are two SBC-6120s (PDP-8 replicas). No Alphas (yet).



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