Interesting computer input technology 2

[CajunCenturion]

I think we need a new category for the keyboard.

HollowWare

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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[sleipnir214]

jwenting:
Actually, the Wright brothers did understand that there was a market for airplanes. On November 22, 1909, Orville and Wilbur Wright incorporated the Wright Company to manufacture airplanes. Orville later got out of the business side of aviation, selling the Wright Company to a group of New York investors in August 1915 (Wilbur having died of typhoid fever in May, 1912).


The quote you're probably looking for is the one from Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, who said in 1977, "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home".


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[lionelhill]

I wouldn't want a 1977 computer in my home. He was right about that.

 

[sleipnir214]

I don't know. I know of a man who built his house around a 7-ton pipe organ....

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[Grenage]

7 ton eh? That would be a real pain when he needed it replacing under warranty.

 

[sleipnir214]

It's not that hard -- you just have to ship the organ back to the manufacturer in the original crate.

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[jwenting]

Sleipnir, I know they patented part of their design and started selling aircraft.

But they never envisioned the huge success it would be. Their patents were let slip, and they never got around to patenting their inventions outside the US.

Ken Olson indeed also misread the future, but the quote I'm looking for came from IBM around the same time.
Then of course there's Bill Gates proclaiming that noone would ever need more than 640KB of RAM early/mid 1980s.

And there's of course the people still believing that flying (and especially spaceflight) is impossible and that it's all some kind of government program of mindcontrol.

 

[Grenage]

sleipnir214,
I'd hate to get the overnight deliver bill on that.

Can you prove you've ever actually been on a plane?

 

[sleipnir214]

Grenage:
I'd hate to get the slow-boat bill on that.

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[CamaroLT]

It's not that hard -- you just have to ship the organ back to the manufacturer in the original crate

I'd hate to see that shipping bill. :/

 

[Tarwn]

Hmm...well if you used the crate as the interior walls of your house around the thing and just cut a doorway, then technically you could just get one of those house moving trucks...get your organ warranty repaired, visit the factory, live off their power and water for a while, might even out

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[CamaroLT]

LOL!!!

Might even get out??? What the hell is "going out" thing I keep hearing about????? People tell me quite often "You gotta get out more!" and I just stand there clueless! Like.. Come on... Theres no life beyond a 7 tonne organ... is there?

 

[jwenting]

I agree. People tell me to get a life, visit the real world.

What's life I want to know? Which URL do I type for the real world?