[ale] #OT HUMOR: The "home computer of 2004" (as envisioned circa1954)...

[Jeff Lightner]

RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Chip (e.g. PowerPC, IBM's RISC-6000,
Sun's Spark and HP's PA-RISC) as opposed to x86 (CISC).

Sadly I've actually worked on an Amstrad PC that a buddy of mine had.
He was running Prodigy as his ISP back before they were calling them
ISPs or letting you know that's all they really were.

Mosaic anyone?

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Hubbs
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:22 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] #OT HUMOR: The "home computer of 2004" (as envisioned
circa1954)...

I got a lot of the visual references but I guess my beard is not gray 
enough to "get" Amstrad or RISC.

I did get SGi (caps noted) immediately because the guitar there is a 
Gibson SG.

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks, Thomas, for being the first to point out that the picture is
a
>>> fake, long known to Snopes.com.  The terminal in the foreground, I
>>> believe is a DECwriter and is therefore highly anachronistic to the
>>> other hardware.
>>>       
>> That reminds me of
http://m3.entitea.com/pics/pic_5580970011890947492.jpg
>>
>> Moderately funny, somewhat bizarre, and slightly nsfw.
>>
>>     
>
> Sad.
>
> I briefly scanned all the images before I even noticed the Sun
> picture.  Been working with Linux far too long.
>
> Greg
>   

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