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So...how old a guy are ya Mr. Whistler?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Guilty as Charged - 6.1 decades

I hear tell some bloggers are younger than that however.

The first president I voted for was Ronald Reagan.

Gene, when I started blogging I thought you and Davedoc were exceptions to the rule rather than being in the mainstream (although a bit closerr to the bank.)

As someone that was engineering when the ethernet was invented, I find that remark most amusing.

I was thinking of examples in my own family.  For a person who didn’t have that kind of experience as a younger person it’s quite difficult to learn.

Like teaching my mother to use her DVR.  HELP!

Do you know who invented ethernet? Company name will suffice.

Did you forget?  Using my “networking for dummies book” it was the document company, Xerox.

I knew it was in there, but I had to look it up. 

Do I get half of the prize.

Did I forget? Hahaha. I was there when it was happening and I didn’t forget or have to look it up.

Glad your not so far gone yet.  ;-o

I doubt that people today realize that Xerox was once a leader in a computer technology innovation and was the first developer of a GUI interface.

They did cover it in the Pirates of Silicon Valley made for TV movie where they just gave it away to Apple.

Whistler...Ronald Regan was the first President I voted for too. I wish we had another one like him to vote for.

Xerox made a corporate level decision not to continue in the computer field.  It closed down the Xerox Design Group, which had developed GUI and the mouse, and Wozniak and Jobs later bought it.  IMO, the Mac OS was the real breakthrough, though.  Even though they lost their infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, Windows is really a Mac OS emulation program, with detail differences in the interface.

Xerox made a corporate level decision not to continue in the computer field.

Docdave and crew probably figured computers would never catch on.

Big Grins!

Robert108,

Your remarks about Xerox, Apple, and Microsoft, raise an interesting question: Has the much vaunted market-leader, Microsoft, ever actually come up with something new and original?

Bat: I’m sure they have, in some small ways, but mostly they have been better marketers of existing tech.  Bill Gates’ original brilliant thought was to market personal computing to the “suits”, and it made him billions.  The purist geeks got left in the dust.  Good management is always the main source of profitability.

Gates and a partner came up with DOS, no?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

no they bought it from someone else.

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